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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Laptop%205 | The Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 is the company's latest laptop computer developed to supersede the Surface Laptop 4. The device was announced on October 12, 2022 introducing 2 new colors and alongside the Surface Pro 9 and Surface Studio 2 Plus. The laptop is powered by the new Windows 11 operating system with the 2022 update and the 12th generation Intel Core processors.
Hardware
Powered by Evo 12th Generation Intel Core only.
Up to 18 hours of battery with the 13-inch model and up to 17 hours with the 15-inch model.
13-inch and 15-inch touchscreen with 3:2 aspect ratio, and 60Hz refresh rate
USB A and USB C port with Thunderbolt 4
Up to 1TB of SSD storage, with no microSD slot for expansion
Up to 32GB of memory
Technical specifications
Timeline
References
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Computer-related introductions in 2021 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki%20Trigoni | Agathoniki Trigoni is a Greek computer scientist who is a professor in the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science and a Fellow of Kellogg College. Trigoni is the Chief Technology Officer of Navenio, a company she founded to provide scalable and accurate indoor location systems. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Early life and education
Trigoni was born in Chalcis and grew up in Greece. As a teenager, she considered becoming a pianist and mathematician, but eventually settled on computer science. She studied toward her bachelor's degree in at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Her first job was at the National Bank of Greece, where she assessed credit risk and issued loans to companies. Trigoni was a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research considered query optimisation for object-oriented operating systems. She moved to Cornell University for postdoctoral training.
Research and career
In 2004, Trigoni joined Birkbeck, University of London as a lecturer. She moved to the University of Oxford in 2007, where she developed the Cyber Physical Systems Group and was made a Fellow of Kellogg College. She was also appointed Director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training on Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.
Trigoni's research considers the development of intelligent and autonomous sensor systems for healthcare, positioning and environmental monitoring. In particular, she has developed novel location systems that can operate indoors. Location systems often struggle to penetrate infrastructure, which compromises the use of high frequency electromagnetic waves. Trigoni looks to combine multiple pervasive technologies to improve the reliability of positioning information. These technologies include visual odometer, inertial tracking and magneto-inductive positioning.
In 2015, Trigoni founded Navenio, a company which provides scalable, robust and accurate indoor location systems. She is the chief technology officer. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Navenio was used by National Health Service trusts for workflow optimisation.
Awards and honours
2022 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2022 Women in IT Awards CTO of the Year
Selected publications
References
1970 births
Living people
Athens University of Economics and Business alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Cornell University faculty
Greek computer scientists
People from Chalcis
Greek emigrants to the United Kingdom
Academics of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cegeka | Cegeka is a European provider of IT solutions, services and consultancy. The company was founded in 1992 and has data centers in Hasselt, Belgium and Geleen, the Netherlands. Anno 2020 CEO Stijn Bijnens leads the company from its headquarters in Hasselt. In 2020, the group had 5,000 employees and achieved a consolidated turnover of 640 million euros.
History
The Cegeka IT company was created as part of the Kempen Coal Mines (KS) reconversion plan. It was originally a joint venture between CSC, investment company Gimv and the KS. The name Cegeka is derived from the initial letters C, G and K of the founders. In 1992 Cegeka was split up: the computer center continued under the name VCST Computer Services, the software department with about 30 employees was taken over by then IT managers André Knaepen and Herman van Halen and continued under the name Cegeka. In 1996, following a capital increase by VCST Special Products, in which he had acquired the majority, Knaepen gained control of Cegeka and it became a family business.
Cegeka grew strongly through several acquisitions. In 1996, Cegeka took over the company ConnectIT. In 2000, the company, which supplies a lot of software to hospitals through its subsidiary Cegeka HealthCare Systems, already had 220 employees. In 2003, the company was named a Trends Gazelle by the weekly Trends magazine. It had sales of 22 million euros and supplied software to several large companies. In 2004 HostIT joined the Cegeka group and in 2006 followed the important acquisition of Ardatis, a company specializing in IT solutions for the social sector. In the same year, with a turnover of 40 million euros and a staff of 350, it received this award again. At the time, it had just acquired the Antwerp software company Cortex. In 2009, Cegeka became a major player in Wallonia thanks to a participation in NSI.
In 2010, Cegeka received the Ambiorix Prize from entrepreneurial organization VKW Limburg. This is the most important award that companies in the province of Limburg can receive.
In 2015, Cegeka acquired Edan Business Solutions, which specializes in ERP solutions. Cegeka did not remain active only within the Belgian borders. For example, the company acquired Databalk in 2007. This was followed later by, among others, the company Inside in Romania in 2012 and Brain Force Software GmbH and Brain Force S.P.A. in 2014, making Cegeka active in Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2016, it increased its footprint in Italy, Austria and Germany thanks to the acquisition of Danube IT. In addition, Cegeka and the UZ Leuven established a joint venture with nexuzHealth.
In 2020, Cegeka acquired KPN Consulting from KPN, becoming a major player in the Dutch market.
In December 2020, Cegeka took a majority stake in Bruges-based network specialist Citymesh.
In June 2021, Cegeka acquired digital school platform Smartschool used in many Belgian schools.
In October 2021, Cegeka acquired cybersecurity specialist Sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander%20Spivakovsky | Oleksandr Spivakovskiy is a Ukrainian academic administrator and mathematician. He is the rector of Kherson State University and a professor and chair of informatics, software engineering, and economic cybernetics. On October 21, 2016, Spivakovsky was elected an academician and corresponding member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine.
References
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Ukrainian academicians
Academic staff of Kherson State University
Heads of universities and colleges in Ukraine
Cyberneticists
21st-century Ukrainian mathematicians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking%20back | Hacking back is a technique to counter cybercrime by hacking the computing devices of the attacker.
The effectiveness and ethics of hacking back is disputed.
Further reading
References
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20localities%20in%20Moldova%20inhabited%20by%20Romani%20people | This is a list of localities in Moldova inhabited by Romani people (in Romanian: romi, țigani), according to the data of 2004 Moldovan census.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20imaginaries | Data imaginaries are a form of cultural imaginary related to social conceptions of data, a concept that comes from the field of critical data studies. A data imaginary is a particular framing of data that defines what data are and what can be done with them. Imaginaries are produced by social institutions and practices and they influence how people understand and use the object of the imaginary, in this case data.
Different data imaginaries compete to be considered common sense. The current most established data imaginary is that of data analytics, which treats data as a neutral resource from which people can extract value. Competing imaginaries include those of data activists, prioritizing data justice, and critical data studies, prioritizing consideration of the context around data.
Theoretical basis
A data imaginary is a particular framing of data, according to Kitchin consisting of "how [data] are understood and normatively conceived of within a population or by stakeholders." It is a social constructivist theoretical concept that comes from the field of critical data studies, which is concerned with identifying these frames and questioning them rather than just taking them at face value. According to Baack, this context is important to consider, as "what data [afford] to whom does not only depend on the technological properties of data, but is fundamentally social, and both culturally and historically situated." Examining data imaginaries treats the narratives around data as separate from the data themselves, focusing on the former.
The concept of data imaginaries draws on the sociological imaginary. In sociology, imaginaries are social constructions that stem from social institutions and practices that prioritize different aspects of a social structure, in this case ideas about the use of data. According to Vanheeswijck, one of the most significant writers on this topic is Charles Taylor in his book A Secular Age, which defines social imaginaries as common understandings that facilitate collective actions and exist in cultural practices rather than being theoretically articulated. Another contributory work to this field is Benedict Anderson's book Imagined Communities, which argues that nationalism is based in "imagined communities" formed around geography and data tools such as censuses. This concept is a geographically focused understanding of data imaginaries. Theories of the social imaginary assert that these constructions are not fake or meaningless, as they direct how people think about a concept like data and what they think is able to be done with them. According to Denick, social imaginaries enable social practices by providing ways to understand the world. Data imaginaries are the narratives that shape how people conceive of and act upon data, though data do not always live up to the ideal aspirations presented.
Competing imaginaries
According to Kitchin, "different groups hold varying data imaginaries, concerning what data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astar%20Network | Astar Network is a blockchain that aims to become Polkadot's "smart contract hub" and serves as a parachain for Polkadot. The native token is "ASTR". The developers are members led by Sota Watanabe. Originally started under the name "Plasm Network" and rebranded as "ASTAR Network" in September, 2021。Mainnet opened to the public on January 17, 2022.
Concept
ASTR
Astar Network uses "ASTR" as the native token, which is used to pay for gas in transactions, as a governor's token for the ability to propose and vote on project policies, and as a reward for staking.。
dApps staking
dApps staking" is a system that rewards developers and users for staking the network's native token "ASTR" for dApps (distributed applications) and infrastructure integrated with the Astar Network. By staking ASTRs to specific dApps, it is possible to support developers while receiving rewards.。
Smart contract
Astar Network provides EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and WASM (Web Assembly) functionality to polkadot, making it easy to migrate dApps (decentralized applications) and smart contracts created on Ethereum. Thereby serving as a hub for multi-chain smart contracts supporting multiple blockchains。
Footnote
Blockchains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Gran%20Show%20%28season%2025%29 | Season twenty-five of El Gran Show premiered on October 1, 2022, on the América Televisión network.
The show returned to its original format after five years of being presented with other versions.
Cast
Couples
Host and judges
Gisela Valcárcel and Aldo Díaz returned as hosts, while Morella Petrozzi, Tilsa Lozano, Adolfo Aguilar and Michelle Alexander returned as judges.
References
External links
El Gran Show
2022 Peruvian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML | AIML may refer to:
All-India Muslim League, a political party in South-Asia
Artificial Intelligence Markup Language, an XML dialect for creating natural language software agents
Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a research institute in Adelaide, Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAION | LAION (acronym for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets. It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen.
In February 2023, LAION was named in the Getty Images lawsuit against Stable Diffusion as a non-party. In April 2023, LAION was directly sued by a German photographer who wanted to have his images removed from the training set.
On April 15, 2023, LAION and contributors released to public an open source AI assistant chatbot OpenAssistant.
Image datasets
LAION has publicly released a number of large datasets of image-caption pairs which have been widely used by AI researchers. The data is derived from the Common Crawl, a dataset of scraped web pages. The developers searched the crawled html for tags and treated their alt attributes as captions. They used CLIP to identify and discard images whose content did not appear to match their captions. LAION does not host the content of scraped images themselves; rather, the dataset contains URLs pointing to images, which researchers must download themselves.
The first such dataset, LAION-400M, was released in August 2021 and consisted of 400 million image-caption pairs. The pairs were extracted from a random subset of webpages scraped by Common Crawl between 2014 and 2021. It was an attempt to recreate the process used by OpenAI to collect the 400 million image-caption pairs they used to train the CLIP model - the company had chosen to open-source the model's code and weights, but not its training dataset. Imagen, a text-to-image model announced by Google Brain in 2022, was trained on LAION-400M in combination with private internal datasets.
A successor of more than 5 billion pairs, LAION-5B, was released in March 2022. As of its release, it was the largest freely available dataset of image-caption pairs in existence. Its creation was funded by Doodlebot, Hugging Face and Stability AI, the AI company behind the funding of the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model, which was trained on it.
OpenAssistant
OpenAssistant is an artificial intelligence (AI) open source chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems and retrieve information dynamically to do so. The project is developed by a group of volunteers in collaboration with LAION. One of the goals for development includes free access to large language models that can be run locally on consumer hardware. The project is backed by a worldwide crowdsourcing effort involving over 13,500 volunteers who have created 600k human-generated data points.
References
Applications of artificial intelligence
Open-source artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence laboratories
Non-profit organisations based in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva%20University%20of%20Art%20and%20Design | Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) () is a European art and design school founded in 2006, and belonging to the network of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland.
History
HEAD was formed in 2006 from the merger of two older Swiss art schools, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and the Haute École d'Arts Appliqués. The École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts was founded in 1748 by the Conseil des Deux-Cents under the name École de Dessein. The Haute École d'Arts Appliqués was founded on October 4, 1869 under the name l’École d’Art Appliqué à l’Industrie.'
About
The school offers coursework at the Bachelors and Masters levels. Areas of study include Visual Arts, Cinema, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Fashion and Accessory Design, and Media Design. However the school is best known for their fashion programs. Since 2017, the campus occupies more than 16,000 m2 in area.
Campus buildings
Building at Boulevard Helvétique 9, used since 2006 by the visual arts section
Building at Rue Général Dufour 2, used since 2006 by the cinema section
Building at Rue de l'Encyclopédie 5, used since 2006 by the visual communication section
Pavillon Prairie at Rue de Lyon 22, used from 2006 to 2016 by the interior design section
Building H, Avenue de Châtelaine 7, used since 2017
Building E, Avenue de Châtelaine 5, used since 2017
Building A, Rue de Lyon 114B, planned for 2020
Building D, Boulevard James-Fazy 15, used since 2006 by the fashion, jewelry and accessories design section
Notable people
Laurence Boissier (class of 2009)
Sonia Kacem (class of 2009 and 2011)
Emmanuel Tarpin (class of 2014)
References
Geneva University of Art and Design
2006 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleste%20Gaiden | is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Compile for the MSX2 home computer. A follow-up to Aleste (1988), it was included as part of the autumn special edition of Disc Station, a monthly disk publication by Compile. It is a sidestory to the main series, taking place in an alternative continuity. Controlling the soldier Raymond Waizen, protagonist of the first game wearing a cybernetic ninja suit, the player must overthrow the supercomputer DIA 51 by fight waves of enemies and bosses, while avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles.
Gameplay
Aleste Gaiden is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up game. The plot takes place in an alternative continuity and follows Raymond Waizen, protagonist of the first Aleste game, who wears a cybernetic ninja suit codenamed in order to overthrow the supercomputer DIA 51. Its gameplay differs from the original entry; the player controls Raymond instead of a ship through five increasingly difficult stages over a constantly scrolling background, populated with an assortment of enemy forces and obstacles such as pits that must be avoided by jumping, and the scenery never stops moving until a boss is reached, which must be fought to progress further.
Unlike other Aleste titles, enemies move in a preset formation instead of being determined by an artificial intelligence. There are three types of power-ups that can be collected by the player, which come in capsules marked with a chikara symbol, as well as equip Raymond with shadow clones of himself. Gaiden employs a checkpoint system in which a downed player will start off at the beginning of the checkpoint they managed to reach before dying. However, the player respawn immediately when fighting a boss. Getting hit will result in losing a life, as well as a penalty of decreasing Raymond's firepower to his original state and the game is over once all lives are lost.
Development and release
Aleste Gaiden was created by Compile, which had previously developed Aleste (1988) for Master System and MSX2. It was produced by Masamitsu Niitani, with Kōji Mizuta and Zod Hoshijima serving as the co-designers. Mizuta also acted as co-programmer alongside Takafumi Tanida, while character designs were provided by Hiroshi Ryūōin. The music was scored by Masanobu "Mats" Tsukamoto, Toshiaki Sakoda (of MUSHA), and Keiji Takeuchi under direction of Masatomo Miyamoto. Other staff members collaborated with its production as well. The game was included as part of the autumn special edition of Disc Station, a monthly disk publication by Compile, released on September 8, 1989. Due to not receiving a full retail title, the autumn edition of Disc Station commands high prices on the secondary game collecting market.
Reception
Aleste Gaiden received a mixture of opinions from reviewers. MSX Gids José Herps applauded the graphical production, audio and overally quality. MSX Clubs Jesús Manuel Montané and Ramón Casillas expressed similar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK%20Reporter | PSK Reporter is an amateur radio signal reporting and spotting network and website started by Philip Gladstone in 2014 which allows operators to see where their radio signals are being received. The platform works by collecting digital signal reports from software clients such as WSJT and FLDIGI, then mapping them to show which stations are being heard by other clients. The website takes its name from the popular amateur radio digital mode PSK31 and supports numerous digital modes, but now the vast majority of digital modes recorded by the service are FT8 traffic. Most traffic recorded on PSK Reporter is in the HF amateur radio bands but the platform also supports MF, VHF, and UHF bands. As of 2021 PSK Reporter had collected over 20 billion reception reports.
Scientific uses
Reporting networks such as PSK Reporter allow researchers in near real time to evaluate space weather conditions, particularly changes in the earth's ionosphere. There are multiple examples of PSK Reporter being used to aid researchers as well as aiding in the prediction and understand of radio propagation. For example, observations made during the 2017 eclipse where over 5,000 amateur radio operators reception reports helped researchers document the eclipses effect on HF communications.
PSK Reporter data has been used for research in UHF and VHF radio propagation; to help improve machine learning algorithms that predict HF propagation; and to evaluate and test the performance of installed antennas.
External links
PSK Reporter Homepage
References
Websites
Amateur radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20decision%20diagram | An algebraic decision diagram (ADD) or a multi-terminal binary decision diagram (MTBDD), is a data structure that is used to symbolically represent a Boolean function whose codomain is an arbitrary finite set S. An ADD is an extension of a reduced ordered binary decision diagram, or commonly named binary decision diagram (BDD) in the literature, which terminal nodes are not restricted to the Boolean values 0 (FALSE) and 1 (TRUE). The terminal nodes may take any value from a set of constants S.
Definition
An ADD represents a Boolean function from to a finite set of constants S, or carrier of the algebraic structure. An ADD is a rooted, directed, acyclic graph, which has several nodes, like a BDD. However, an ADD can have more than two terminal nodes which are elements of the set S, unlike a BDD.
An ADD can also be seen as a Boolean function, or a vectorial Boolean function, by extending the codomain of the function, such that with and for some integer n. Therefore, the theorems of the Boolean algebra applies to ADD, notably the Boole's expansion theorem.
Each node of is labeled by a Boolean variable and has two outgoing edges: a 1-edge which represents the evaluation of the variable to the value TRUE, and a 0-edge for its evaluation to FALSE.
An ADD employs the same reduction rules as a BDD (or Reduced Ordered BDD):
merge any isomorphic subgraphs, and
eliminate any node whose two children are isomorphic.
ADDs are canonical according to a particular variable ordering.
Matrix partitionning
An ADD can be represented by a matrix according to its cofactors.
Applications
ADDs were first implemented for sparse matrix multiplication and shortest path algorithms (Bellman-Ford, Repeated Squaring, and Floyd-Warshall procedures).
See also
Binary decision diagram
Zero-suppressed decision diagram
References
Diagrams
Graph data structures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasphere | The datasphere is a multidisciplinary concept that first appeared in the 1980s. While many terms have been adopted to describe the digital world – terms such as the Internet, cyberspace, metaverse – the various concepts of the datasphere seem to address the growing dependency of human activities on data, as well as approach the digital world in a holistic manner. Related terms include data economy, data governance, data commons, and data management.
History of the term
The term "datasphere" has been used to broadly define digital space and information, particularly in relation to information flow, data, and digital platforms. Since the 1980s, the concept started to be used more and more. Since then, it has been applied to a variety of contexts ranging from product names, to conference titles, and terms of science fiction art.
The 'datasphere' as a concept was popularized by the media theorist, writer and advocate of cyberpunk culture and open-source solutions to social problems, Douglas Rushkoff, in the 1980s. He approached the datasphere as the "circulatory system for today's information, ideas and images", understood as "our new natural environment". Rushkoff's conceptualization, centered in media theory, was deployed to explain how 'media viruses' – ideas that capture public attention – rapidly spread. As such, Rushkoff's datasphere invokes ideas of information flow, rather than being focused on structured data and its analysis.
Around the same time as Rushkoff's global datasphere concept was coined, others were writing of the 'personal datasphere' - drawing more upon the idea of a datasphere as a stock of data. The personal datasphere concept envisions multiple dataspheres each with their own center (e.g. a person, with a personal datasphere encompassing all the data about that individual; a location, such as a shopping center; or a company, and so-on).
In 2004, a short paper by lawyer and cyberdefender, Andrew Updegrove, introduced the concept of a "Personal Data Sphere". Updegrove (2004) conceptualizes the Personal Data Sphere (PDS), with a nod back to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's 1925 concept of a 'Noosphere' "layer of consciousness surrounding the globe, comprising all human thought and culture". Updegrove's PDS resonates with contemporary concepts such as MiData, Vendor Relationship Management, and Personal Data Stores. His concept refers to personal digital data such as birth and death records, and parental estate planning documents.
In 2015, law professor, Stephen Humphreys, alludes to the idea of "living in the datasphere" in his article "Conscience in the datasphere" where he attempts to reframe the debate on privacy, law, and technology using the datasphere to communicate the public's immersion in data.
The term emerged again in 2015 when a group of doctors published their paper "The Project Data Sphere Initiative: Accelerating Cancer Research by Sharing Data" in The Oncologist journal. Acknowledging that cancer research can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Criminal%20Register%20%28Poland%29 | National Criminal Register () is an official database of criminal convictions and other law enforcement data maintained by the Polish Ministry of Justice.
History and legal basis
The National Criminal Register was established on 22 June 2001 by the Act of 24 May 2000 on National Criminal Register and replaced the previously existing Central Register of Convicts () and Central Register of Juvenile Offenders ().
In early 2022, the Ministry of Justice announced a bill to reform the National Criminal Register by allowing some official notices and documents to be shared between authorities by digital means, and hence improving its reliability and currentness. Moreover, the information in the Register is to be linked to the PESEL Register. The proposed changes are aimed at creating a new computer system labelled "KRK 2.0".
Data processed and stored
The following information is stored in the National Criminal Register:
data about convictions for criminal offences and tax offences,
data about persons who received a conditional discharge for a criminal offence or a tax offence,
data about persons who received a conditional discharge for a criminal offence or a tax offence under amnesty schemes,
data about Polish citizens convicted by foreign courts,
data about persons who are subject to court-imposed preventive measures (bail) in cases of criminal or tax offences,
data about juvenile offenders who were subject to court-imposed educational, corrective or educational-medical measures or were punished under the article 13 or the article 19 of the Act of 26 October 1982 on the procedure for juvenile offenders,
data about persons who were convicted for a petty (minor) offence and were given a punishment of imprisonment for that offence,
data about persons who are wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant,
data about persons who are detained pending trial,
data about juvenile offenders detained in a juvenile shelter.
Data regarding fixed penalty notices () issued and convictions for petty (minor) offences, like traffic violations, are not stored in the Register, unless a custodial sentence was imposed.
Accessing data
The Register is not public. Access to data is limited to authorities (Policja, prosecutor offices (), courts, Foreign Intelligence Agency, Internal Security Agency, Border Guard, Central Anticorruption Bureau, State Protection Service, Military Counterintelligence Service, Military Intelligence Service), data subjects, and, in limited cases, data subjects' employers (when a statue requires an employee to have no criminal record).
As of 2019, data in the Register are accessed as often as 3 million times a year, with 80 per cent of all access requests coming from relevant state authorities.
Removal of data
Data about convictions are automatically removed when they are considered "spent" under the Polish criminal law. Information about conditional discharges is removed if no further offence is committed within a stated probatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20%282019%20film%29 | Clara () also released internationally as The Little Dragon is a 2019 Ukrainian computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Oleksandr Klymenko from a screenplay by Klymenko and Serhii Grabar. Produced by Image Pictures, Clara was released in Ukrainian cinemas on 26 October 2019.
Premise
One day, Clara, who lives in a small house with three monkeys, finds a magical dragon in a forest. After some deliberation, Clara, together with two friends, a cheerful raccoon and a grumpy dwarf, decide to help the little dragon by attempting to find his home. However, unbeknownst to them, the Forces of Evil are hunting not only the Dragon, but now Clara and her friends as well.
Voice cast
The Ukrainian voice cast:
Veronika Lukyanenko as Clara
Oleksandr Pogrebnyak as Raccoon
Serhiy Solopai as Alfred
Dmytro Zavadskyi as Sip
Matvii Nikolaev as Alchemist
Kyrylo Nikitenko as Panther
Dmytro Vikulov as Mole
Dmytro Gavrilov as innkeeper
Yuriy Soskov as Boy Dwarf
Kateryna Bashkina-Zlenko as Girl Gnome
Oleg Lepenets as Grandfather Gnome
Vyacheslav Dudko as Blacksmith Gnome
Demyan Shiyan as Boy
Oleg Lepenets as Butler
Music
The soundtrack was composed by Ivan Rozyn, Max Smogol, Zakhar Dzyubenko and Nikita Moiseev. Pur:Pur performed songs in both Ukrainian and English, while one of the songs was performed by the Dovzhenko Sound Studio musical orchestra.
References
External links
Clara at DzygaMDB (in Ukrainian)
«Клара и волшебный дракон»: Рецензия Киноафиши (in Russian)
2019 animated films
2019 films
Ukrainian animated films
Ukrainian animated fantasy films
Ukrainian adventure films
Ukrainian-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Motsinger-Reif | Alison Anne Motsinger-Reif is an American biostatistician and human geneticist specialized in association analyses, big data, and genomic analyses. In December 2018, she became the chief of the biostatistics and computational biology branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Montsinger-Reif was previously a professor of statistics at the North Carolina State University.
Life
Motsinger-Reif was a lab technician in the department of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University from 1997 to 2000. Her advisor was James E. Smith. She earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences (2002), M.S. in Applied Statistics (2006) and Ph.D. in Human Genetics (2007) at Vanderbilt University.
She held varying faculty roles at North Carolina State University from 2007 to 2018 including professor of statistics and biostatistics core director. On December 10, 2018, she joined National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) as chief of the Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch. Her group focuses on the development and application of modern statistical approaches for understanding the etiology of common, complex diseases. She conducts association analyses looking at large-scale genetics and genomics data to find genetic factors that predict complex disease, and responses to drugs and environmental chemicals.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American biologists
National Institutes of Health people
Vanderbilt University alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Wake Forest University people
21st-century American mathematicians
American women statisticians
American women geneticists
American geneticists
Biostatisticians
Human geneticists
Statistical geneticists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic%20fibrosis%20and%20race | Underrepresented populations, especially black and hispanic populations with cystic fibrosis are often not successfully diagnosed. This is in part due to the minimal dissemination of existing data on patients from these underrepresented groups. While white populations do appear to experience a higher frequency of cystic fibrosis, other ethnicities are also affected and not always by the same biological mechanisms. Thus, many healthcare and treatment options are less reliable or unavailable to underrepresented populations. This issue affects the level at which public health needs are being met across the world.
Definition
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive and monogenetic disorder. It is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The CFTR protein (Figure 1) serves to move chloride ions to the surface of cells to ensure proper hydration. When this protein becomes dysfunctional, the chloride ions are not present to thin out the viscous mucus that forms. This thickened mucus causes many problems in various organs of the body.
Symptoms
People with cystic fibrosis may experience salty skin, persistent coughing, lung infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis, and wheezing and shortness of breath. Cystic fibrosis can also cause poor weight gain and growth, nasal polyps, chronic sinus infections, clubbing or enlargement of fingers and toes, infertility in males, and rectal prolapse. Cystic fibrosis may also lead to arthropathies. These symptoms and co-morbidities can ultimately lead to nutritional deficits and highly decreased quality of life.
Compared to white patients, black patients have more severe pulmonary imaging findings and display more respiratory symptoms at diagnosis. Similarly, black and hispanic patients have overall worse pulmonary function than white patients that is often present earlier in life. Though this may be the case, these symptoms can be misdiagnosed as other health issues and treated as such.
Diagnosis
Through symptoms
To be diagnosed with CF, patients must meet certain criteria. These criteria may include showing a combination of the signs and symptoms above and/or have a family member with CF and/or test positive for the mutation during genetic screening.
Conventional diagnostic criteria
Individuals must have at least one clinical feature:
meconium ileus (bowel obstruction when meconium in intestine is too thick)
diarrhea and failure to thrive
recurrent respiratory infections
nasal polyps
rectal prolapse
male infertility
electrolyte depletion
Or CF diagnosis in family member, or positive newborn screening test, plus one or both of the following:
chloride channel dysfunction (positive sweat test or abnormal transepithelial potential difference)
known disease-causing mutations on chromosome 7 in trans
Though these symptoms may present themselves in underrepresented minorities, there remains the misconception among doctors that underrepresented minorities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Yugadol%20Nava%20Yuva%20Madhura%20Prema%20Kavyam | Cyber Yugadol Nava Yuva Madhura Prema Kavyam is a 2012 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Madhuchandra starring Gurunandan and Shwetha Srivatsav in lead roles.
Plot
The film follows the story of a college student named Jayantha (played by Gurunandan) who falls in love with his classmate Sneha (played by Shwetha Srivatsav). Whether or not Jayantha and Sneha survive the hurdles posed by an incident involving their friends and Vishwa, Sneha's brother, forms the rest of the story.
Cast
Gurunandan as Jayantha
Shwetha Srivatsav as Sneha
Sharath Lohithaswa
Veena Sundar
Achyuth Kumar
Sundar
Nanjunda
Seetha Kote
Kiranmayi
Manojav as Vishwa
Music
Reception
Critical response
A critic from The Times of India scored the film at 3 out of 5 stars and says "
While Gurunandan and Shwetha Srivastav have displayed an impressive performance as love birds, Kiranmayee and Nanjunda are equally good as lovers turned couples. The highlight of the movie is music by Vasu Dixit and Abhilash Lakra. Cinematography by Manohar Joshi is superb". Srikanth Srinivasa from Rediff.com scored the film at 2 out of 5 stars and wrote "Vasu Dixit's music will go down well with young listeners. Manohar Joshi's camera work is excellent in the song picturisation and especially the number shot in Bali Islands, Indonesia. The film can be appreciated for the freshness of thought and the enthusiasm of the young team, but for nothing else". B S Srivani from Deccan Herald wrote "The director lays bare the merits and demerits of living-in before returning to ideas used in some Telugu films to revive the story. Initially weak, his dialogues secure seetis mingled with admiring gaalis. Vasu and Abhilash rev up the tempo with quirky, pleasing music. A fresher’s attempt, the film is laudable though the entire content is not palatable". Y Maheswara Reddy from DNA wrote "Sharath Lohitasva livens up the screen as well. Music directors Vasu Dixit and Abhilash Lakhra have also done a good job. The film makes a worthy watch for both youth and their parents, so go for it!". A critic from Zee News wrote "Newcomers Gurunandan and Shwetha Srivastav dominate the screen space, but fail to make any impact. But some sequences show that Shwetha can be groomed into a good performer. Veterans Sharath Lohithashwa, Veena Sundar and Nanjunda have given good performances. ‘Cyber Yugadol Navayuva Madhura Prema Kavyam’ tests your patience. Look for a better alternative than watching this film".
Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South - Shwetha Srivatsav - Won
SIIMA Award for Best Male Debutant - Kannada - Gurunandan - Nominated
References
2010s Kannada-language films
2012 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Keil%20%28professor%29 | Mark Keil (born 1960) is a Regents’ Professor and the John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Health Administration at Georgia State University.
His research examines managerial decision-making, specifically in the context of IT projects and includes work on project escalation, project status reporting, project risk, project control, project manager skills, and technology acceptance.
He has served as a Division Chair for the Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO, formerly known as OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management. He has also held a variety of editorial positions for journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Information Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems.
Keil has given many research talks at U.S. universities and has also held short visiting appointments abroad at the National University of Singapore, Australian National University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Göttingen, Goethe University, University of Bamberg, and Swinburne University of Technology.
Education
In 1982, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in engineering (B.S.E.) from Princeton University. He obtained his master's degree (S.M.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management in1986. He obtained a doctoral degree (D.B.A.) in Management Information Systems from the Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1991.
Career
He started his career at DuPont's Experimental Station after completing his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering. After completing his Master's, he worked as a project manager and consultant in the information systems area before enrolling in the HBS doctoral program. During his doctoral studies, he worked as an instructor at the Harvard University Extension School.
In 1991, after completing his doctoral degree, he began his academic career as an assistant professor at Georgia State University. He was tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2002.
Writings
Keil has published 130 peer-reviewed journal articles in such publications as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Strategic Management Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review. Google Scholar indicates that his work has received over 25,000 citations.
Keil's work (with co-author Anandhi Bharadwaj of Emory University) on the market impact of IT failures was featured in Baseline in 2001 titled "Bada Boom". The article noted that “on average, the stocks of publicly traded companies decline 1.75% as negative news emerges” involving an IT failure. This “decline transla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf%20Schenk | Olaf Schenk is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is full professor of the faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, and external lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. Schenk is a senior member of scholar associations as IEEE, and ACM. His research interests are inherent to the field of High-performance computing, in particular to the development and optimization of algorithms and software tools to perform large-scale simulations. One of his main contribution is the PARDISO project, a software tool for solving large-scale sparse matrices. He is the co-director of the Institute of Computing and of the Master of Science in Computational Science at USI.
References
External links
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
German computer scientists
German academics
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GadgetGang%20in%20Outer%20Space | GadgetGang in Outer Space () is a 2017 Brazilian 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed and written by Ale McHaddo. It was produced by McHaddo, Carolina Fratinni, Guilerme Machado de Sá and Melina Manasseh. The film was released in Brazilian cinemas on 23 February 2017 by Imagem Filmes and was later released in United States on DVD on July 4, 2017.
Synopsis
When a spaceship crashes to Earth and reveals a group of quirky little aliens on the run for their lives, the GadgetGang members Gus, Phoebe, Francesco, Mitsue, Mary Ann, Banana, and Tank soon discover this won't be the boring weekend they had dreaded. They learn that in a point far from the galaxy, an evil warlord named Gana Golber has seized control of the Confederation of Planets and now all of the planets are in danger, including Earth.
Production
With the screenplay originally written in 2005. The production begin in 2012 and ended in 2016 with a budget of 5 million reais, while most of the production was McHaddo's own studio in São Paulo, rendering and compositing was carried by Studio56 in Bangalore. The film was animated on Maya with rendering on Arnold, the voice acting was originally recorded in English by Audioworks at New York.
The soundtrack was composed by Alexandre Guerra and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. It was later signed to the record label Tratore.
References
External links
(in Brazilian) [archived]
2017 animated films
2017 films
2010s Portuguese-language films
Brazilian science fiction comedy films
Brazilian animated films
Animated films about extraterrestrial life
Mockbuster films
Animated films set on fictional planets
Animated films about robots
Brazilian comedy films
2017 computer-animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety%20and%20liveness%20properties | Properties of an execution of a computer program—particularly for concurrent and distributed systems—have long been formulated by giving safety properties ("bad things don't happen") and liveness properties ("good things do happen").
A simple example will illustrate safety and liveness. A program is totally correct with respect to a precondition and postcondition if any execution started in a state satisfying terminates in a state satisfying . Total correctness is a conjunction of a safety property and a liveness property:
The safety property prohibits these "bad things": executions that start in a state satisfying and terminate in a final state that does not satisfy . For a program , this safety property is usually written using the Hoare triple .
The liveness property, the "good thing", is that execution that starts in a state satisfying terminates.
Note that a bad thing is discrete, since it happens at a particular place during execution.
A "good thing" need not be discrete, but the liveness property of termination is discrete.
Formal definitions that were ultimately proposed for safety properties and liveness properties demonstrated that this decomposition is not only intuitively appealing but is also complete: all properties of an execution are a conjunction of safety and liveness properties. Moreover, undertaking the decomposition can be helpful, because the formal definitions enable a proof that different methods must be used for verifying safety properties versus for verifying liveness properties.
Safety
A safety property proscribes discrete bad things from occurring during an execution. A safety property thus characterizes what is permitted by stating what is prohibited. The requirement that the bad thing be discrete means that a bad thing occurring during execution necessarily occurs at some identifiable point.
Examples of a discrete bad thing that could be used to define a safety property include:
An execution that starts in a state satisfying a given precondition terminates, but the final state does not satisfy the required postcondition;
An execution of two concurrent processes, where the program counters for both processes designate statements within a critical section;
An execution of two concurrent processes where each process is waiting for another to change state (known as deadlock).
An execution of a program can be described formally by giving the infinite sequence of program states that results as execution proceeds,
where the last state for a terminating program is repeated infinitely.
For a program of interest, let denote the set of possible program states, denote the set of finite sequences of program states,
and denote the set of infinite sequences of program states. The relation holds for sequences and iff is a prefix of or equals .
A property of a program is the set of allowed executions.
The essential characteristic of a safety property is:
If some execution does not satisfy then the defi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervos%20Network | Nervos Network is a blockchain platform which consists of multiple blockchain layers that are designed for different functions. The foundational layer is known as the Common Knowledge Base, whilst the native cryptocurrency of this layer is called CKB. This foundational layer uses a proof-of-work consensus model. Smart contracts and decentralized applications can be deployed on any layer.
Nervos Network was founded in 2018 by Jan Xie, Terry Tai, Kevin Wang, Daniel Lv, and Cipher Wang.
Architecture
Nervos Network utilizes multiple blockchain layers to for different functions. The base layer prioritizes security and decentralization, and is optimized to verify transactions. It can settle transactions submitted from upper layers and resolves disputes. Layer 2 and above are able to favor greater throughput demands of software applications.
Layer 1
The foundational layer of Nervos Network is known as the Common Knowledge Base. The native cryptocurrency to this layer is referred to as CKB (or CKByte). This currency also stores digital assets and executes smart contracts. One CKB represents 1 byte of storage on the blockchain.
NC MAX
Layer 1 achieves cryptographic consensus through proof of work, using a modified version of Bitcoin's Nakamoto consensus algorithm: NC-MAX. NC-MAX was presented at the Internet Society's Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium in 2022. The consensus process uses a novel hash function called "Eaglesong."
Cell Model
The accounting method on layer 1 is an expansion of Bitcoin's UTXO model, and is dubbed the "Cell model". This model is programmable, thereby supporting smart contracts. Additionally, a cell is able to store data on-chain, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), compiled code, or serialized data like JSON strings.
CKB-VM
The CKB virtual machine (CKB-VM) is a software-based emulated computer that executes smart contracts on Nervos Network's base layer.
Like the Ethereum virtual machine, CKB is a Turing-complete development environment, but also integrates the RISC-V instruction set.
Layer 2
Two layer 2 blockchainsexist on Nervos Network: Godwoken and Axon. Godwoken is a blockchain protocol that can be configured to run virtual machines or consensus models. With this framework, larger numbers of transactions are processed and are then submitted in batches to layer 1 for subsequent verification. Godwoken runs the Ethereum virtual machine (EVM), allowing developers to use of tools and software developed for Ethereum while directly interfacing with Nervos and utilizing CKB. Axon is an EVM-compatible sidechain protocol optimized for higher transaction throughput.
See also
Alternative currency
List of cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Decentralized finance
References
Further reading
External links
Blockchains
Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency projects
International non-profit organizations
Alternative currencies
Cross-platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMA%20Wireless | JMA Wireless is an American wireless networking hardware manufacturing company in Syracuse, New York. It was founded in 2012 by the current chief executive officer John Mezzalingua.
It offers Open-RAN compliant 5G Radio access network (RAN) products, 5G millimeter wave products, private wireless technology hardware products, focusing on design, code, and manufacture of 4G and 5G devices in the United States. JMA Wireless created the first fully virtualized RAN for carrier and private networks as well as the first indoor 5G millimeter wave radio in the United States.
On May 19, 2022, JMA Wireless and Syracuse University announced the signing of a 10-year naming rights deal of the on-campus stadium, renaming the Carrier Dome after 42 years. The stadium was renamed as the JMA Wireless Dome, referred to as the JMA Dome.
History
The company was founded in 2012 by John D. Mezzalingua as John Mezzalingua Associates LLC, initially employing about 150 people. He previously ran the Production Products Company (PPC), which was sold to Belden Incorporated for $515.7 million.
The headquarters, located in Clay, New York was expanded in 2017. In 2021, the company operated manufacturing facilities in Syracuse, with additional R&D, manufacturing, and sales staff Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Boulder, Richmond, VA, and Europe. In 2022, the company's $100 million 5G manufacturing campus was inaugurated by New York state Governor Kathy Hochul.
It is a member of the Wireless Infrastructure Association.
Software and other technology
JMA Wireless operates on a software-based XRAN architecture, which integrates processes into a single common server and removes the need for radios and jumpers in Distributed antenna system (DAS) deployments.
In 2018, JMA Wireless acquired 5G radio provider PHAZR for an undisclosed amount. The deal allowed JMA Wireless to offer 5G RAN technologies that supports spectrum from 600 MHz all the way up to 47 GHz.
Notable projects
JMA Wireless has deployed 5g in many large stadiums including SoFi Stadium (Los Angeles), Fiserv Forum (of the Milwaukee Bucks), Sacramento Kings, JMA Wireless Dome (of Syracuse University), and other large settings, such as Carnegie Mellon University, the city of Tucson, American Dream Meadowlands, Crowne Plaza Atlanta-Midtown, and Olympic Stadium in Italy.
References
External links
2012 establishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 2012
Companies based in Syracuse, New York
Electronics companies established in 2012
Electronics companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Telecommunications Billing Systems
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFIP%20Working%20Group%202.3 | IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology is a working group of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Its main aim is to increase programmers’ ability to compose programs. To this end, WG2.3 provides an international forum for discussion and cross-fertilization of ideas between researchers in programming methodology and neighboring fields. Generally, members report on work in progress and expect suggestions and advice. Discussions are often broadened by inviting "observers" to meetings as full participants, some of whom eventually become members.
Scope
This scope of work in WG2.3 was introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra in meeting 0 (Oslo, Norway, July 1969).
Identification of sources of difficulties encountered in present-day programming;
The interdependence between the formulation of problems and the formulation of programs, and the mapping of relations existing in the world of problems into the relations among programs and their components;
Intellectual disciplines and problem-solving techniques that can aid programmers in the composition of programs;
The problem of achieving program reliability;
The consequences of requirements for program adaptability;
The problem of provability of program correctness and its influence on the structure of programs and on the process of their composition;
Guidelines of partitioning large programming tasks and defining the interfaces between the parts;
Software for mechanized assistance to program composition.
History
In December 1968, IFIP Working Group 2.1 adopted the proposal by Aad van Wijngaarden as a successor to Algol 60 (ultimately leading to ALGOL 68). A group of members of WG2.1 opposed it and produced a minority report. The group also felt that rather than just programming languages, a forum was needed to discuss the general problem of programming. Another impetus for the creation of a group was the findings of the first of the NATO Software Engineering Conferences, held in 1968, which spoke of the "software crisis" then seen as gripping the computing world.
The parent committee TC2 of IFIP approved the formation of a new Working Group, WG2.3, for this purpose. Mike Woodger agreed to chair it.
An organizing meeting was held in Oslo, 20–22 July 1969, with Ole-Johan Dahl, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Douglas McIlroy, Brian Randell, Gerhard Seegmueller, Wlad Turski,
Mike Woodger, and (chair of WG2.1) attending. Doug Ross was also a founding member. Brian Randell suggested the title Programming Methodology.
The founding members were predominately academic, and a deliberate
attempt was made to bring in members from industry and commerce as well as from
Asia and the USSR. WG2.3 generally meets once or twice a year for five days at a time.
Until 1976, all meetings were held in Europe, but after that meetings often alternated between Europe and North America. Several meetings have been held in Australia.
The first meeting was held in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1970. It was atte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni%3A%20Thunder%20God%27s%20Tale | is a computer-animated fantasy limited series created by Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi for Netflix. Based on "Onari's Lullaby" by Emi Tsutsumi, and inspired by various Japanese folklore, the series tells a story of Onari, who sets on a path of becoming one of the folklore heroes, protecting her peaceful village from the mysterious oni. Produced by Tonko House and animated by Megalis VFX and Dwarf Studios, the series premiered on October 21, 2022.
Synopsis
Set in Japanese mythology. One of the free-spirited children, Onari, had a unique power yet to be seen by her peers in a world of oddball gods and monsters of the Japanese folklore. Aspiring to be one of the mightiest heroes of her village, she decided to take a journey to discover her own power. However, when a mysterious group of "Oni" threaten her own village, reputed for being peaceful for ages, she also had to rise to the occasion to thwart their attack and protect people of her village.
Cast
Momona Tamada as Onari
Craig Robinson as Naridon
George Takei as Mr. Tengu
Anna Akana as Ann-Brella, Ninjin
Brittany Ishibashi as Amaten
Archie Yates as Kappa
Tantoo Cardinal as Principal
Seth Carr as Calvin
Miyuki Sawashiro as Emi
Charlet Takahashi Chung as Darma, Tanukinta
Yuki Matsuzaki as Tasaburo
Robert Kondo as Nama & Hage, Kappa Papa
Omar Miller as Putaro
Episodes
Production
Conception
After spending several years of his career in the American animation industry, Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi began to wonder whether he would get a platform to tell another part of his identity. Dice then decided to start an animation project, dedicated on telling a story true to his cultural heritage. Hence, he began to conceptualize a story which were based on a Japanese mythology with a modern twist. With his project, he sought to shift the common perspective of onis and the notion of good and evil into a different angle. It was revealed later on October 20, 2022, that Tsutsumi had based the story on the poetry "Onari's Lullaby" written by his late mother, Emi Tsutsumi, who was a poet.
The environment of the series was largely inspired by Yakushima in the southern Japan, where Dice and Mari Okada often visit. Its forests, along with its vegetations, were made as the reference for the settings of Onari's neighborhood.
Development
On March 4, 2019, Tonko House, Daisuke Tsutsumi's own animation studio, unveiled the project, dubbed as Oni , as a part of the studio's project slates among other projects such as Leo and Sleepy Pines. The project was revealed to be a CGI animated and stop-motion hybrid television series, produced (and animated) by Tonko House with its animation developed by CG studio Megalis and Japanese stop-motion animation house Dwarf Animation, with the latter responsible for a Netflix animated series, Rilakkuma and Kaoru. The animated series was revealed to be created and directed by Tsutsumi himself. The test footage of Oni was revealed on the first Tonko House Film Festival in sprin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crungus | A Crungus is an imaginary creature found in artificial intelligence text-to-image models, sometimes also referred to as a digital cryptid. Twitch streamer and voice actor Guy Kelly found that typing the made-up word into the Craiyon image generator consistently produced pictures of a monstrous, hairy humanoid.
He later tweeted about this which resulted in a very long thread of reactions and experiments with "Crungus" and variations of this AI-prompt also on different engines.
Since Craiyon version 2 was introduced in 2023, the prompt "Crungus" no longer produces the same imaginary creature.
Origins
It is unclear how the Crungus in Craiyon's output came into existence. Kelly thinks an error in the AI software models is the most likely explanation. In any case, the Krampus was quickly eliminated as a model. Although the horned mythical figure from the Alpine region has a similar name and his mask looks almost exactly the same, the term "Krampus" on Craiyon provides different images.
Kelly also speculated at the AI was responding to the "-rungus" suffix, noting the similar appearance of heavy metal performer Oderus Urungus, and could be interpreting the word as something "orc-based", in reference to the fantasy creatures.
See also
Artificial intelligence art
Loab, another AI generated cryptid
References
Artificial intelligence art
Text-to-image generation
Fictional characters introduced in 2022
Internet memes introduced in 2022
Internet meme characters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%20Nigeria%20floods | The 2022 Nigeria floods affected many parts of the country. From the Federal Government Data, the floods had displaced over 1.4 million people, killed over 603 people, and injured more than 2,400 persons. About 82,035 houses had been damaged, and 332,327 hectares of land had also been affected.
While Nigeria typically experiences seasonal flooding, this flood was the worst in the country since the 2012 floods.
As of October, over 200,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed by the floods. On 7 October, a boat carrying people fleeing the floods capsized on the Niger River, causing 76 deaths.
The flooding was caused by heavy rainfall and climate change as well as the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon, which began on 13 September. Flooding, which affected Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and the surrounding region, began in the early summer of 2022 and ended in October.
Causes
The Nigerian government has blamed the floods of 2022 on unusually heavy rains and climate change. United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria Matthias Schmale said that the flooding could be largely explained by climate change. Climate change in Nigeria has been responsible for flooding, droughts, decreased air quality and the loss of habitat.
A climate modeling study by the World Weather Attribution project estimated that the floods were rendered far more likely and much more intense by climate change. They modeled the June to September rainfall in the Lake Chad and lower Niger river catchment areas, looking at total rainfall and intense rain weeks.
Flooding was exacerbated on 13 September with the perennial release of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon. Excess water released from the dam cascades down River Benue and its tributaries, flooding communities in the states of Kogi, Benue as well as other states in the northeast. When Lagdo Dam was constructed in 1982, there was an agreement by Nigerian authorities to build a second, twin dam in Adamawa State to contain the overflows. Known as the Dasin Hausa Dam project, it was to be situated in Dasin Village of the Fufore local government area, but was never built by the Nigerian government.
Nigerian Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management & Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq said that "there was enough warning and information about the 2022 flood" she blamed local governments, states, and communities for not acting promptly despite the warnings.
The indiscriminate construction on natural flood plains and storm water paths together with poor drainage systems in many residential areas clog channels with waste. Lax enforcement of environmental laws have only exacerbated problems even further.
Impact
While Nigeria regularly experiences seasonal flooding, the floods of 2022 have been the worst since the 2012 Nigeria floods. Flooding began in early summer and has affected 33 of Nigeria's 36 states.
Over two million people have been affected by the flooding. A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%20Zhang | Mi Zhang is a computer scientist at Ohio State University, where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the director of AIoT and Machine Learning Systems Lab. He is best known for his work in Edge AI, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), machine learning systems, and mobile health.
Biography
Zhang was born in Beijing, China. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Peking University in China. He received his M.S. degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, all from University of Southern California.
From 2013 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral associate in computing and information science at Cornell University. From 2014 to 2022, he was an assistant professor and then a tenured associate professor at Michigan State University. From 2022, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ohio State University as a tenured associate professor.
Honors and awards
In 2016, he developed the first on-device deep learning-based pill identification algorithm on mobile devices that won the first place of the NIH Pill Image Recognition Challenge.
In 2017, he developed the memory and computation-efficient AI-based real-time noise removal and speech enhancement algorithm for smart hearing aids that won the third place of the NSF Hearables Challenge.
In 2019, he developed the model compression algorithms for enhancing the efficiency of deep learning models that won the 4th place of the CIFAR-100 track in the NeurIPS Google MicroNet Challenge.
In 2020, he won the MSU Innovation of the Year Award for his smart hearing aids invention.
In 2021, he was awarded the ACM SenSys Best Paper Award.
In 2023, he received the Inaugural USC ECE SIPI Distinguished Alumni Award in the Junior/Academia category for his contributions to mobile/edge computing in his early career.
Some of his other notable awards include:
2020 – Facebook Faculty Research Award
2020 – NeurIPS Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning Best Paper Award
2019 – Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Award
2018 – IEEE CNS Best Paper Award
2016 – NSF CRII Award
2015 – ACM UbiComp Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
Selected talks
Empowering the Next Billion Devices with Deep Learning, Stanford University, (2021).
Selected publications
Samiul Alam, Luyang Liu, Ming Yan, and Mi Zhang. "FedRolex: Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Rolling Sub-Model Extraction". Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), (2022).
Yu Zheng, Zhi Zhang, Shen Yan, and Mi Zhang. "Deep AutoAugment". International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), (2022).
Xiao Zeng, Ming Yan, and Mi Zhang. "Mercury: Efficient On-Device Distributed DNN Training via Stochastic Importance Sampling". ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), (2021).
Chenning Li, Hanqing Guo, Shuai Tong, Xiao Zeng, Zhichao Cao, Mi Zhang, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Austrian%20motorcycle%20Grand%20Prix | The 2023 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the CryptoData Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich) was the tenth round of the 2023 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season and the sixth round of the 2023 MotoE World Championship. All races (except for both MotoE races which were held on 19 August) were held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on 20 August 2023.
Practice
MotoGP
The top ten riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.
Qualifying
MotoGP
Moto3
MotoE
All bikes manufactured by Ducati.
MotoGP Sprint
The MotoGP Sprint was held on 19 August.
Warm up practice
MotoGP
Enea Bastianini set the best time 1:29.517 and was the fastest rider at this session ahead of Fabio Quartararo and Álex Márquez.
Race
MotoGP
Moto2
Álex Escrig suffered a fractured tibia due to a crash in Practice 3 and withdrew from the race.
Barry Baltus withdrew from the race after he was deemed unfit after Practice 2 due to hurting his foot prior to the race weekend.
Moto3
MotoE
Race 1
All bikes manufactured by Ducati.
Race 2
All bikes manufactured by Ducati.
Championship standings after the race
Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.
MotoGP
Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Moto2
Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Moto3
Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
MotoE
Riders' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings
Notes
References
External links
2023 MotoGP race reports
motorcycle Grand Prix
2023
motorcycle Grand Prix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20operation | Illegal operation may refer to:
Medicine
Illegal operation (euphemism), an archaic term for abortion
Abortion, a medical intervention to terminate a human pregnancy
Organ theft
Computing
Illegal opcode
General protection fault
Other
Illegal taxi operation
Criminal organization
Criminal conspiracy
See also
Operation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamborine%20Mountain%20road%20network | The Tamborine Mountain road network is a group of roads that provide access to the mountain community from various lowland localities. The network ensures continuity of access in times of flooding or other natural disasters, and during planned maintenance activities. The locality of Tamborine Mountain includes a plateau that hosts a substantial residential community plus many tourism accommodation and activity venues.
Located to the south-west of Brisbane and north-west of the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia, Tamborine Mountain is also a popular day-trip destination. Most traffic from Brisbane travels through Tamborine village, in the locality of to the north-west of the mountain, while most Gold Coast traffic travels through (to the south-east) or (to the north-east).
Roads in the network
The following roads are considered to be part of the network:
Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road
Beaudesert–Beenleigh Road passes through Tamborine village, bringing traffic from the Mount Lindesay Highway to the south-west and from the Pacific Motorway to the north-east. Some of the traffic on this road then travels on Tamborine Mountain Road to reach Tamborine Mountain.
Beaudesert–Nerang Road
Beaudesert–Nerang Road passes through to the south and to the south-east, providing access to roads from those localities to Tamborine Mountain.
Tamborine Mountain Road
Tamborine Mountain Road runs from Tamborine village in the north-west to Tamborine Mountain and continues south to Canungra. It carries most of the traffic from Brisbane to Tamborine Mountain.
Tamborine–Nerang Road
Tamborine–Nerang Road is a state-controlled district road (number 2050) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Tamborine Mountain Road in Tamborine Mountain to Beaudesert–Nerang Road in Clagiraba, a distance of by a circuitous route to the east. It is known in parts by each of the following local names:
Petition for improvements
In October 2021 a petition requesting improvements to Tamborine Mountain roads was presented to the Queensland Parliament. Particular mention was made of the poor condition of Golf Course Road, Guanaba Road and Henri Robert Drive, all components of this road. Also mentioned was Main Western Road, the component of Tamborine Mountain Road used to access this road.
Tamborine–Oxenford Road
Tamborine–Oxenford Road is a state-controlled district road (number 206) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Tamborine Mountain Road in Tamborine Mountain to the Pacific Motorway in , a distance of by a circuitous route to the north-east. It is known in parts by each of the following local names:
Upgrade project
A project to upgrade the Howard Creek Causeway, at a cost of $10 million, entered the construction phase in October 2021.
Waterford–Tamborine Road
Waterford–Tamborine Road is a state-controlled district road (number 207) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Brisbane–Been |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T%20Study%20Group%2015 | The ITU-T Study Group 15 (SG15) 'Transport' is a standardization committee of ITU-T concerned with networks, technologies and infrastructures for transport, access and home. It responsible for standards such as GPON, G.fast, etc.
Administratively, SG15 is a statutory meeting of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which creates the ITU-T Study Groups and appoints their management teams. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Chaesub Lee).
The goal of SG15 is to produce recommendations (international standards) for networks.
Area of work
SG15 focuses on developing standards and recommendations related to optical transport networks, access network transport, and associated technologies.
Some of the key responsibilities of SG15 include:
Developing international standards for optical and transport networks, which covers fiber-optic communication systems, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), and synchronization aspects.
Addressing issues related to access network transport, such as digital subscriber lines (DSL), gigabit-capable passive optical networks (GPON), and Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON).
Developing recommendations for network management, control, and performance monitoring, as well as resilience, protection, and restoration mechanisms.
SG15 collaborates with other ITU-T study groups, regional standardization bodies, and industry stakeholders to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated approach to global telecommunication standardization.
See also
ITU-T
References
External links
ITU main site
ITU-T Study Group 15 web site
International Telecommunication Union
ITU-T Study Groups
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unica%20Hija | Unica Hija () is a Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Kate Valdez in the title role. It premiered on November 7, 2022 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Return to Paradise. The series concluded on March 3, 2023 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by AraBella in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kate Valdez as Bianca "Bubbles" Sebastian / Hope Sebastian / Fatima / Charity / Agape / Roxanne
Supporting cast
Katrina Halili as Diane "D" Sebastian
Maybelyn dela Cruz as Cara Orosco-Rivas
Biboy Ramirez as Joselito "Jhong" Marasigan
Mark Herras as Zachary "Zach" Rivas
Boboy Garrovillo as Romualdo "Waldo"
Bernard Palanca as Lucas Orosco
Maricar de Mesa as Lorna Marasigan
Faith Da Silva as Carnation Marasigan / Hope Sebastian
Athena "Rere" Madrid as Aica O. Rivas
Kelvin Miranda as Ralph S. Vergara
Jennie Gabriel as Trixie
Jemwell Ventenilla as Denver
Shanicka Arganda as Penny
Issa Litton as Tamara Saavedra-Vergara
Erin Ocampo as Elena
Bing Pimentel as Hera "Mother Hera" Meneses
Arkel Mendoza as Mickey
Guest cast
Alfred Vargas as Christian Sebastian
Lilet as Melinda Rivas
Kzhoebe Nichole Baker as young Carnation Marasigan
Lyanne Bron as young Hope Marasigan / Hope Sebastian
Therese Malvar as young Cara Orosco
Kych Minemoto as young Zachary Rivas
Shermaine Santiago as Gracia "G" Garcia
Patricia Tumulak as TV host
Aaron Hewson as Vladimir
Production
Principal photography commenced on July 20, 2022.
Episodes
References
External links
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Cloning in fiction
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine science fiction television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparition%20of%20the%20Virgin%20to%20St%20Bernard%20%28Fra%20Bartolomeo%29 | Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard is an oil-on-wood painting by Italian artist Fra Bartolomeo, datable to 1504–1507. It is held in the Uffizi, in Florence.
History
In 1504, four years after Fra Bartolomeo had taken his vows, the prior of the Convent of San Marco, where he lived, suggested him to return to painting, which he had not done since taking the Dominican habit. The artist accepted his suggestion and for that purpose he set up a small atelier in the same convent. He received his first commission on 18 November 1504, from Bernardo Del Bianco, for an altarpiece destined for the Badia Fiorentina. Fra Bartolomeo worked in the painting the following years, until the work was completed and delivered in 1507, when the client paid the balance of the payment. The painting was installed in the family chapel in the church, specially created by Benedetto da Rovezzano.
In 1627, with the demolition of the original chapel, the altarpiece was moved to the sacristy. Remained in the church until the Napoleonic suppressions, it went, like all the major works of Florentine churches and convents, to the recently established Galleria dell'Accademia, in 1810. In 1945, with the reorganization of the Florentine state collections, it was finally assigned to the Uffizi.
Today in the Badia there is another masterwork with the same subject, the Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard by Filippino Lippi.
Description and style
The first work created by Fra Bartolomeo after the profound mystical crisis that he went through following the death of Girolamo Savonarola, it shows a strong mystical sense. Iconographically the artist refers to the analogous work of Perugino, from which derives the pose of the saint, his white habit and contemplative attitude. More complex, however, is the left half of the painting, where appears the Virgin with Child Jesus, while a group of angels seems to be pushing her forward. On the right side, instead, the presence of two saints, Benedict and Barnabas, balances the group of St. Bernard.
In the background there is a bright landscape with a city, while on the right, on a cliff, is visible the scene of St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata, to underline the communion between the different forms of monastic religiosity, the Benedictines, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. A small tablet at the bottom in the center of the composition with the Crucifixion is leaning against a book, a devotional motif taken from the example of Beato Angelico in the San Marco Altarpiece.
The complexion is full-bodied and florid, while the composition seems to anticipate the developments of Mannerism. In fact, the movements of the figures seem to have slowed down, making the gestures and the looks more grandiloquent. The pointed physiognomies of the angels' heads instead demonstrate a quotation from the capricious ways of Piero di Cosimo.
The miraculous tale appears normalized in everyday life, emphasized only by the grandeur of the Michelangelo– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Traitors%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Traitors (also known as The Traitors Australia outside of Australia) is an Australian reality television series broadcast on Network 10, based on the Dutch series De Verraders, which premiered on 16 October 2022.
Following the premise of other versions of De Verraders, the show features a group of contestants participating in a game similar to the party game Mafia as they stay in a historic luxury hotel. During their stay, a small group of contestants become the titular "Traitors," and must work together to eliminate the other contestants to win a grand prize, while the remaining contestants become "Faithful" and are tasked to discover and banish the Traitors by voting them out, to win the grand prize.
The second season included both civilian and celebrity contestants.
In October 2023, 10 announced the series won’t be returning in 2024, however may return in the future.
Format
A group of contestants arrive at a historic luxury hotel in Robertson in the Southern Highlands as "Faithful" contestants – hoping to share a prize fund worth up to A$250,000. Among them are the "Traitors" – a small group of contestants selected by host Rodger Corser on the first day, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithfuls and claim the prize for themselves. Should the Faithful contestants eliminate all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund. If a Traitor makes it to the end, they steal the money.
Each night, the Traitors come together and decide upon one Faithful contestant to "murder" – and that person will leave the game immediately. The remaining Faithful contestants will not know who has been eliminated until the following day when they will not arrive for breakfast. The group then take part in a mission to win money for the prize fund (awarded in the form of silver bars). In some episodes, the group also participates in a Shield challenge to win individual player immunity from elimination (both from Murder & Banishment). The second season introduced the Armoury, a hidden room in which in some episodes offered players from the winning team of the day's mission to be rewarded with the chance for one player is secretly awarded the shield of protection, which gives the player immunity from being murdered, but not the banishment vote. An attempted murder on the shield holder will result in no player being eliminated.
At the end of each day, the group will participate in the Banishment Ceremony – where the players discuss who to vote out before individually voting for a player to banish. Players cast their votes privately before revealing their vote in turn to everyone. The person obtaining the most votes is banished from the game and must reveal their affiliation. In a tied vote, a run-off vote occurs between those tied with the highest vote tallies.
At the end of the game, the remaining players participate in the end game. The players can choose to "Vote" or "Stop". A majority Stop vote would conclude the game, while a majority vote to "Vote" would resu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKC-HR | The Network of Social-Cultural Centers (abbreviated DKC-HR or Network DKC-HR) is a national network of unions of associations, platforms and associations in the Republic of Croatia that advocate the establishment of an institutional framework for social-cultural centers. Social and cultural centers are institutions jointly managed by civil society and the public sector. Such centers provide the local community with a sense of belonging and solidarity and are unconventional places for socializing, relaxing, talking, meeting, producing, presenting, educating, consulting and informing.
History
The Network of Socio-Cultural Centers was founded on May 28, 2020, in Zagreb. The network is founded on the initiative of a total of nine members (union of associations, platforms and associations) who co-manage existing socio-cultural centers in the Republic of Croatia according to the principle of participatory management and develop models of civil-public partnerships in culture. The members of the DKC Network decided to establish a formal national network after many years of efforts regarding the development of social and cultural centers in a dozen cities in Croatia.
The establishment of the DKC Network arose from the need to strengthen the role of social and cultural centers in the Republic of Croatia. One of the models for socio-cultural centers in Croatia is POGON – Zagreb Center for Independent Culture and Youth, which was founded in 2008, and the model of that public non-profit institution set an appropriate framework for the establishment of social- cultural centers and in other cities.
In 2020, the Clubture network organized a final conference of the project "DKC-HR: Network of Social and Cultural Centers" which was carried out as part of the call "Culture in the center – support for the development of public civil partnership in culture". In addition to the presentation of the results, it included panels on the practices of participatory management and civil-public partnership in socio-cultural centers in Croatia and the region.
Organizational structure
The founders of the DKC Network are: Art Workshop Lazareti from Dubrovnik, Forum of independent culture associations – FUNK from Koprivnica, Platform Dom mladih from Split, Platforma Hvar from Hvar, KAoperativa Union of Associations from Karlovac, Clubture as national network of associations from Zagreb.
The DKC network has an Assembly and a board of directors. The assembly is the highest governing body of the association. The management board has 5 members. The association is headed by the president. The headquarters of the association is in Zagreb, at the address Baruna Trenka 11. The President of the DKC Network is Mirela Travar from the Association of Associations Operation City.
References
External links
DKC-HR website
Culture of Croatia
Cultural organizations based in Croatia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Bentley | Katie Bentley is a British computer scientist who is group leader in the Cellular Adaptive Behaviour Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute and an academic at King's College London. Her research considers computational simulations of cellular interactions.
Early life and education
Bentley studied mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Sussex. She moved to University College London for doctoral research, where she studied morphological plasticity in robotic and biological systems. Bentley was then appointed a postdoctoral researcher with Holger Gerhardt at the Cancer Research UK Research Institute in London, where she studied experimental biology.
Research and career
In 2013, Bentley was made an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School, where she worked in the Center for Vascular Biology Research, and after two years established a satellite modelling laboratory. She was appointed to the Biological Design Centre in Boston University in 2017. In 2019 Bentley joined the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Bentley builds computational software to understand the communication between cells. Bentley is interested in emergent behaviour of cells and how nearby cells influence them. She has shown that it is possible for cells to help their nearby cells ('adaptive') or help a pathogen ('maladapted'). She has investigated the growth of blood vessels. Under normal conditions, these blood vessels adopt a hierarchical branching structure, but they can become maladapted and bulbous in tumours. This degeneration can lead to increased tumour metastasis. To tackle cancer progression, Bentley has proposed that it should be possible to switch the blood vessels back to a normal network structure – and that by studying blood vessel growth using artificial life simulations it should be possible to understand their organisation.
Selected publications
References
External links
Living people
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Academics of King's College London
British computer scientists
British biologists
Women biologists
British women computer scientists
British women biologists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerelle%20Joseph | Jerelle A. Joseph is a computational chemist and academic from Dominica, who is also an advocate for representation and diversity in science. She is the founder of CariScholar, a network connecting students and academics from Caribbean countries.
Biography
Joseph grew up in the village of Vieille Case in Dominica. Her mother was a nurse and her father worked a variety of jobs. She graduated in 2012 with a BSc in Chemistry and mathematics from the University of the West Indies. This was followed by an MPhil in Chemistry at the same institution, graduating in 2014. She subsequently graduated with a DPhil in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in 2018. She subsequently continued her work at Cambridge in a post-doctoral role in the team of Rosana Collepardo-Guevara. In January 2023 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. She works on the development of computational approaches to determine cellular organisation, in particular liquid–liquid phase separation.
Joseph is the founder of CariScholar, an organisation designed to connect students and academics from the Caribbean for mentoring. Mentors include pscyhopharmocologist Kito Barrow, physician Mondel George, engineer Asher Williams, machine learning scientist Randall Martyr, amongst others.
Awards
Outstanding Youth in Diaspora Award – National Youth Council Dominica (2022)
Rising Star in Soft and Biological Matter – University of Chicago (2020)
Bill Gates Sr Award – Gates Cambridge Trust (2018)
Gates Cambridge Scholarship – Gates Cambridge Trust (2014)
R. L. Seale Chemistry Prize – University of the West Indies (2012)
Faculty of Arts and Science Scholarship – Government of Dominica (2009)
Publications
Joseph, J. A., Espinosa, J. R., Sanchez-Burgos, I., Garaizar, A., Frenkel, D., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase separation of protein-RNA mixtures by a minimal model. Biophysical Journal, 120(7), 1219-1230.
Joseph, J. A., Reinhardt, A., Aguirre, A., Chew, P. Y., Russell, K. O., Espinosa, J. R., ... & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy. Nature Computational Science, 1(11), 732-743.
Krainer, G., Welsh, T. J., Joseph, J. A., Espinosa, J. R., Wittmann, S., de Csilléry, E., ... & Knowles, T. P. (2021). Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions. Nature communications, 12(1), 1-14.
Espinosa, J. R., Joseph, J. A., Sanchez-Burgos, I., Garaizar, A., Frenkel, D., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2020). Liquid network connectivity regulates the stability and composition of biomolecular condensates with many components. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(24), 13238-13247.
Sanchez-Burgos, I., Espinosa, J. R., Joseph, J. A., & Collepardo-Guevara, R. (2021). Valency and binding affinity variations can regulate the multilayered or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blush%20%282021%20film%29 | Blush is a 2021 computer-animated science fiction short film inspired by a true story from writer and director Joe Mateo, produced by Heather Schmidt Feng Yanu and executive produced by John Lasseter, David Ellison and Dana Goldberg. Developed from Skydance Animation, the short film follows an astronaut falling in love with an alien on a small planet. The film was dedicated to the memory of Mary Ann R. Mateo who passed from breast cancer. It was released on Apple TV+ on October 1, 2021.
Plot
The short film opens up with an unnamed astronaut planting a garden in his spaceship but doesn't realize that a meteor is on its way to crashing into the spaceship. As a result, his spaceship is destroyed, and he is left alone on a small deserted planet. He later removes plants from his garden and plants them on the planet, but in a matter of hours, the plants wither without air or water. He later witnesses another spaceship crash into the planet, which makes him believe there was someone on the ship. His plants suddenly regrow and create a tree, and notices a pinkish female alien with ribbon hair making the tree grow. They later develop a relationship based on love at first sight, and the alien later removes plants from the spaceship to plant them into the planet, essentially making it a larger garden. The astronaut later decides to remove his helmet, but nearly dies from asphyxia. The alien decides to give him some of her air to make him breathe.
Some months later, the astronaut spends his time with her, and taught her a few things like eating mangos. As the years go by, the couple develops their relationship and is seen having two daughters who have their own treats from their parents, an older girl with her mother's hair but closely realistic to her father's and a young girl with her father's hair but closely to her mother's ribbon hair. The alien later is seen as weak, to the point where she can no longer eat and/or walk. As a result, the planet withers and she dies into an aurora, which causes the astronaut to nearly die from asphyxia again til he nearly lives when he wakes up to his daughters, who are giving him air so that he can breathe again and make the planet regrows in an instant, revealing they have their mother's powers in them.
During the post-credits scenes, as he's sleeping with his daughters and a pet alien dog, the astronaut witnesses another spaceship crash into the planet. Curious though, he and his daughters go to check out only to discover something that made him blush.
Production
Development
The idea for the film came from story artist Joe Mateo who lost his wife Mary Ann four and a half years ago to breast cancer. Suffering from a panic attack, his daughters symbolized his air. The film was announced later on as Skydance Animation's first production/project to debut with Apple Studios distributing it, making it the first Skydance film to be from Apple TV+. On October 1, 2021, Skydance Animation released its first short film insp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrappable%20builds | Bootstrappable builds, a process of compiling software that doesn't depend on (compiler) binaries that aren't build from source by this process.
This process can protect against compiler backdoors: if the build process doesn't depend on binary code that is difficult to audit, then a compiler backdoor cannot be hidden in compiler binaries anymore.
Methods
A way to tackle the issue for a Software distributions is to reduce the size of the binaries used to bootstrap the distribution until there are not needed anymore or that the size is small enough to be easily reviewed by humans.
Many compilers for various programming languages are written in the language they target. For instance the official Go compiler(gc) is written in Go.
So without alternatives compilers compiler like GCC that are written in another programming language (here in C and C++) the go compiler would require a binary of a previous version of the go compiler binary to be built.
To have bootstrappable builds, it is often possible to find an older versions of the compiler that could be built from sources, and from that, write code to automatically build the next version of the compilers until having a recent version. Identifying which version can build which versions is often not trivial and that often result in very long compilation times for the bootstrap procedure. Sometimes this also require to maintain older compiler versions and to backport support for newer CPU architectures on older compilers versions to be able to bootstrap these architectures.
This process can also be replaced or combined with other ways to bootstrap compilers.
For instance it is also possible to write a new compiler for a language, that is written in another language.
These techniques can be used to reduce the size of the binaries used to bootstrap a distribution.
As for building the first compiler that can build the subsequent compilers, it is possible to reduce the size to a single binary that is less than 1 Kilobyte and from that use multiple stages in the bootstrapping procedure to be able to build a C compiler, and from that build the other compilers or software.
History
Bootstrappable builds was started in 2016 as a spin-off of the reproducible builds project.
See also
Reproducible builds
References
External links
bootstrappable.org
Compiling tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20and%20Holofernes%20%28Preti%29 | Judith and Holofernes is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Mattia Preti, datable to around 1653–1656. It is held at the Museo di Capodimonte, in Naples.
History
The canvas is mentioned for the first time in the last will of the Calabrian lawyer Domenico di Somma, dated of 1659, where another work by Preti, the St John the Baptist is also named.
The legacy of di Somma passed to his collaborator and friend, also from Calabria, Antonino Laratta. Both of them were Preti lawyers during the controversy that the painter had a few years earlier against the priests of the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, for a diatribe relating to fees due for the cycles of frescoes that Preti executed on the life of Saint Andrew.
On the death of Laratta, in 1685, the painting, together with that of St. John the Baptist, passed to the Church of San Domenico Soriano in Naples, a central place for the life of the Calabrian community in the city. The two works, therefore, at the will of the new owner, who in any case complied with a previous request indicated in Somma's will, were placed along the two side walls of the chapel where the lawyer Domenico had been buried, the first on the right of the main altar.
After the suppression of the religious order in 1806, the painting, together with that of St. John the Baptist and another, the first executed by Preti once he arrived in Naples, the St. Nicholas of Bari for the Gallo-Coscia Chapel, were taken and brought into the Bourbon collections of the Palazzo dei Regi Studi. However, unlike the San Nicola, which found a place in the Neapolitan museum from the beginning, the Judith canvas appears in inventory among those permanently exhibited only in 1870, as it was first confined to deposits and then, in 1839, affected by a restoration work on the support.
Description
The painting takes place in the dark interior of a tent, where the Assyrian general Holofernes was sleeping, after being led to believe of the Jews eminent defeat by Judith. The characters seem particularly illuminated in the scene, in contrast with the darkness surrounding them. It depicts Judith after beheading the sleeping general, holding his head on her arms, with an apparently sorrowful look. Judith looks up as if convinced of having fulfilled God's will, while the beheaded and partially naked corpse of Holofernes lies on his bed, with his neck dripping blood. The chiaroscuro of the painting is clearly inspired by Caravaggio.
References
1656 paintings
Paintings by Mattia Preti
Paintings in the Museo di Capodimonte
Paintings depicting Judith
Christian art about death |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament%20of%20Champions%20%28TV%20series%29 | Tournament of Champions is an American reality-based cooking television game show on Food Network hosted by Guy Fieri, with Justin Warner and Simon Majumdar as floor presenters. 16+ chefs who had previously won on other game shows that had aired on Food Network compete in head-to-head, timed, competitions using specified ingredients and random equipment.
The competitions take place in front of a live studio audience. Blind judging is provided by a three judge panel.
Season 1
Season 1 began on March 3, 2020. Judges for the season included Marcus Samuelsson, Nancy Silverton, Curtis Stone, Rocco DiSpirito, Jonathan Waxman, Ming Tsai and Traci Des Jardins. The Season 1 champion is Brooke Williamson.
West
East
Final
Season 2
Season 2 began on March 7, 2021. Judges for the season included Marcus Samuelsson, Nancy Silverton, Rocco DiSpirito, Jonathan Waxman, Traci Des Jardins, Scott Conant, Alex Guarnaschelli, Cat Cora, Giada De Laurentiis and Ming Tsai. The Season 2 champion is Maneet Chauhan.
West
East
Final
Season 3
Season 3 began on February 27, 2022. Judges for the season included Nancy Silverton, Rocco DiSpirito, Jonathan Waxman, Traci Des Jardins, Scott Conant, Alex Guarnaschelli, Cat Cora, Ming Tsai, Giada De Laurentiis, Lorena Garcia, Eric Ripert, Dominique Crenn and Masaharu Morimoto. The Season 3 champion is Tiffani Faison.
West A
West B
East A
East B
Final Four
Season 4
Season 4 began on February 19, 2023. Judges for the season include Scott Conant, Alex Guarnaschelli, Nancy Silverton, Ming Tsai, Andrew Zimmern, Jonathan Waxman, Michelle Bernstein, Daniela Soto-Innes, Daniel Boulud and Cat Cora. The Season 4 champion is Mei Lin.
West A
West B
East A
East B
Final Four
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2020s American cooking television series
2020s American game shows
Cooking competitions in the United States
Reality competition television series
2020 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Eared%20Bunny%20and%20Two-Eared%20Chick | No-Eared Bunny and Two-Eared Chick () is a 2013 German 3D computer-animated children's film directed by Maya Gräfin Rothkirch and Til Schweiger (who also acted as producers), based on a screenplay by Thilo Graf Rothkirch, Klaus Baumgart and Schweiger. Produced by Rothkirch Cartoon-Film in co-production with Warner Bros Entertainment Germany and Barefoot Films, the soundtrack was composed by Dirk Reichardt. No-Eared Bunny and Two-Eared Chick was released in German cinemas on 26 September 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and had a worldwide box office gross of $2,875,527. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics.
Premise
A bunny born without ears is ostracised by the other bunnies in his town. One day, he finds an egg lying on his doormat. When the Two-Eared Chick finally hatches from the egg, a close friendship flourishes between the two. However, an evil fox threatens their livelihood.
Release
No-Eared Bunny and Two-Eared Chick was released in German cinemas on 26 September 2013 by Warner Bros. Pictures, where it had an opening gross of $394,998 from 576 theatres. By 30 September, the film had received 42,000 admissions from 589 theatres. No-Eared and Two-Eared Chick ended its German theatrical run with a total gross of $2,416,348. In Belgium and Austria, released on 25 September and 27 September respectively, No-Eared Bunny and Two-Eared Chick grossed an additional $459,179, giving the film a final box office gross of $2,875,527.
References
External links
(in German)
No-Eared Bunny and Two-Eared Chick at filmportal.de (in German)
2013 animated films
2013 3D films
2010s German animated films
German computer-animated films
Films directed by Til Schweiger |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20model | In machine learning, diffusion models, also known as diffusion probabilistic models or score-based generative models, are a class of generative models. The goal of diffusion models is to learn a diffusion process that generates the probability distribution of a given dataset. It mainly consists of three major components: the forward process, the reverse process, and the sampling procedure. Three examples of generic diffusion modeling frameworks used in computer vision are denoising diffusion probabilistic models, noise conditioned score networks, and stochastic differential equations.
Diffusion models can be applied to a variety of tasks, including image denoising, inpainting, super-resolution, and image generation. For example, in image generation, a neural network is trained to denoise images with added gaussian noise by learning to remove the noise. After the training is complete, it can then be used for image generation by supplying an image composed of random noise for the network to denoise.
Diffusion models have been applied to generate many kinds of real-world data, the most famous of which are text-conditional image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. More examples are in a later section in the article.
Denoising diffusion model
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Diffusion models were introduced in 2015 as a method to learn a model that can sample from a highly complex probability distribution. They used techniques from non-equilibrium thermodynamics, especially diffusion.
Consider, for example, how one might model the distribution of all naturally-occurring photos. Each image is a point in the space of all images, and the distribution of naturally-occurring photos is a "cloud" in space, which, by repeatedly adding noise to the images, diffuses out to the rest of the image space, until the cloud becomes all but indistinguishable from a gaussian distribution . A model that can approximately undo the diffusion can then be used to sample from the original distribution. This is studied in "non-equilibrium" thermodynamics, as the starting distribution is not in equilibrium, unlike the final distribution.
The equilibrium distribution is the gaussian distribution , with pdf . This is just the Boltzmann distribution of particles in a potential well at temperature 1. The initial distribution, being very much out of equilibrium, would diffuse towards the equilibrium distribution, making biased random steps that are a sum of pure randomness (like a Brownian walker) and gradient descent down the potential well. The randomness is necessary: if the particles were to undergo only gradient descent, then they will all fall to the origin, collapsing the distribution.
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM)
The 2020 paper proposed the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM), which improves upon the previous method by variational inference.
Forward diffusion
To present the model, we need some notation.
are fixed constants.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Really%20Want%20to%20Stay%20at%20Your%20House | "I Really Want to Stay at Your House" is a song by British singer Rosa Walton written for the 2020 video game Cyberpunk 2077. Featured in the fictional radio station 98.7 Body Heat Radio, the song was included by Lakeshore Records on the soundtrack album Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 2 (Original Soundtrack), which was released on 18 December 2020. The song would later on go viral in 2022 after being utilised heavily in the 2022 cyberpunk anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and chart in the United Kingdom at number 68.
Music video
A music video for the song was released on 3 October 2022, published to both the official Netflix and Cyberpunk 2077 YouTube channels. The clip was edited by Nicholas Fung and features a compilation of scenes from throughout the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime series which highlight the romantic relationship of the main characters David Martinez and Lucyna Kushinada.
Chart performance
After its inclusion in the anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners in 2022, the song charted at number 68 on the UK Singles Chart.
Charts
Notes
References
External links
Cyberpunk (role-playing game)
2020 songs
Anime songs
Love themes
Songs written for video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20%28talk%20show%29 | Toni was a Philippine talk show hosted and produced by Toni Gonzaga. The show aired on ALLTV from October 3, 2022 to July 28, 2023.
References
All TV (Philippines) original programming
2020s Philippine television series
2022 Philippine television series debuts
2023 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
Philippine television talk shows
Television shows filmed in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton%20railway%20station | Leighton Station was a railway station on the Transperth network in Perth, Western Australia. It was located on the Fremantle line around from Perth, serving the Fremantle suburb of North Fremantle.
History
Leighton Station opened on and was named after Leighton's Crossingwhich was named for Ann Leighton, its gatekeeper from 1881 to 1885. Along with the rest of the Fremantle line, Leighton closed on 1 September 1979 due to low passenger counts. It reopened in 1983 with the rest of the line following a change of government.
During the 1980s when the Fremantle, Midland and Armadale lines were being electrified, the old North Fremantle station above Tydeman Road (where the current freight horseshoe curve is) was replaced by a new North Fremantle station constructed north of the current one located north of Tydeman Road. This new station opened on , causing the demise of Leighton.
Services
Leighton station was served by Fremantle line services operated by Westrail on behalf of the Metropolitan Transport Trust from Fremantle to Perth.
Platforms
Leighton had two platforms on an island. Services towards Perth departed from platform 1.
References
External links
Fremantle line
Disused railway stations in Western Australia
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1922 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%27s%20Ranch%20Kitchen | Guy's Ranch Kitchen is an American reality-based cooking television show hosted by Guy Fieri on Food Network.
References
External links
Food Network original programming
2010s American cooking television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annadata%20%28magazine%29 | Annadata is an Indian farmers and agriculture magazine published in Telugu language monthly. As of 2019, It is the highest circulated magazine in India with the circulation of 345,000.
History
It was started by Ramoji Rao in 1969 and currently run under the Eenadu Newspaper.
The editorial team has announced that Annadata, which has been published for the past 55 years, will stop publication with the December 2022 issue.
References
Magazines published in India
Monthly magazines published in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubture | Clubture (or Clubture Network, officially in English: Union of non-profit organizations Clubture; in or short ) is a non-profit, inclusive, participatory network that works on gathering actors and strengthening collaboration between non-profit organizations in Croatia, founded in May 2002 in Zagreb. The network works towards achieving its goals through the exchange of cultural and artistic activities and programs across different parts of the country. It was formally registered on June 16, 2002.
The network gathers over 50 active members, including Art Workshop Lazareti, Shadow Casters, Kontejner, Multimedia Institute, QueerANarchive, Queer Sport Split, Skribonauti, Udruga za promicanje kultura Kulturtreger, Udruženje za razvoj kulture "URK", etc. Clubture Network participates in national, regional, and international projects, initiatives, and networks. It started running regional programs in 2004 with the aim of connecting independent cultural organizations in countries of the former SFR Yugoslavia.
History
The network was founded in 2002 in Zagreb, initiated by Multimedia Institute and Zagreb clubs such as Močvara, Attack, and KSET. The name Clubture arises from the initial idea of club program exchange, but since the beginning, other organizations focusing on culture and youth have joined.
Founding organizations included: Art Workshop Lazareti from Dubrovnik, GRADDONJI from Osijek, Metamedia and Monteparadiso from Pula, Pokret urbanog življenja from Slavonski Brod, cultural-artistic association Romb from Split, Spirit from Rijeka, WHW - What, How & for Whom, URK - Udruženje za razvoj kulture and Udruženje Zdravo društvo, Autonomous cultural center ATTACK!, BLOK - Lokalna baza za osvježavanje kulture, Udruga studenata arhitekture EASA-Hrvatska, Ekseperimentalna slobodna scena - EKS Scena and Multimedia Institute from Zagreb.
Since 2007 Clubture Network is a member of Culture Action Europe. Clubture network is also a founding member of DKC-HR network of socio-cultural centers organized as public-civil partnerships across Croatia.
Programs and projects
Since 2002, Clubture Network has continually implemented the program Clubture-HR: Program exchange and collaboration which through independent cultural organizations, artist organizations and informal initiatives implements partner projects realizing different contemporary cultural events
throughout Croatia. Until 2022, the program enabled more than 260 projects with over 1500 cultural and artistic events in more than 100 cities and towns in Croatia. One of the program's specificities is collective decision-making on which programs will be realized in a program cycle, decided by all the project proponents and members of the Clubture Network.
Some projects initiated by the Clubture Network have grown into independent organization programs. The portal kulturpunkt.hr, focusing on contemporary independent culture, that Clubture initiated in 2005, today is a major project of the organization Kur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea%20Pets | Tea Pets (), also released as Toys & Pets, is a 2017 Chinese 3D computer-animated comedy film written and directed by Gary Wang, and produced by Yuan Ye and Yu Zhou. It was produced by Wang's studio Light Chaser Animation Studios, in collaboration with Dadi Films and Youman Cartoon. Tea Pets had its world premiere at the 2017 Seattle International Film Festival on 20 May 2017, and was released in Chinese cinemas on 21 July 2017. It grossed $5,057,715 at the worldwide box office.
Premise
The plot concerns a group of ceramic tea pets who live in a tea shop, taking pride in changing colour when tea is poured near them. However, Ah Tang is the only tea pet who will not change color no matter how the tea is poured. One day, Xiaolai, a magical robot from the future, accidentally crashes into the tea shop. Ah Tang sees this as a glimmer of hope to find a way to make his color beautiful. So, Ah Tang convinces Xiaolai to on an adventurous journey with him to find the future and try to find Ah Tang's colour.
Release
Tea Pets had its world premiere at the 2017 Seattle International Film Festival on 20 May 2017 as one of ten Chinese feature films that premiered as part of the second China Stars Showcase series. It premiered in China on 16 July, before being released in cinemas nationwide on 21 July. In China, it grossed $4,552,351, and was later released in several other countries, ending with a worldwide box office gross of $5,057,715.
References
External links
Light Chaser Animation Studios films
Chinese computer-animated films
Chinese children's films
Chinese comedy films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunya%20Mountains%20road%20network | Bunya Mountains road network is a group of roads that provide access to the mountain community from various lowland localities. The network ensures continuity of access in times of flooding or other natural disasters, and during planned maintenance activities. The locality of Bunya Mountains includes the Bunya Mountains National Park and the enclosed locality of Mowbullan. The area hosts a small residential community plus many tourism accommodation venues.
Located to the north-west of Toowoomba, north-east of Dalby and south-west of Kingaroy, in Queensland, Australia, Bunya Mountains is also a popular day-trip destination. Most traffic from north of Brisbane travels through Maidenwell, to the east of the mountain, or Kumbia, to the north, while most traffic from south and west of Brisbane approaches from the south.
Roads in the network
In addition to the New England Highway, D'Aguilar Highway and Bunya Highway, the following roads are considered to be part of the network:
Bunya Mountains–Maclagan Road
Bunya Mountains–Maclagan Road is a state-controlled district road (number 4163), part of which is rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It carries traffic from on the Dalby–Cooyar Road to on the Bunya Mountains Road, a distance of . Together with Jondaryan–Nungil Road and Pechey–Maclagan Road it provides a fairly direct route from the Warrego Highway at Jondaryan to the Bunya Mountains. There is an unsealed section of on this road.
Bunya Mountains Road
Bunya Mountains Road is a state-controlled district road (number 4161) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from on the Dalby–Cooyar Road to Bunya Mountains via Moola, and on to on the Bunya Highway via , a circuitous route of . The southern climb/descent (from/to Moola) is steep and narrow with tight curves, while the northern climb/descent (from/to Alice Creek) is a less challenging road.
Dalby–Cooyar Road
Dalby–Cooyar Road runs from to , a distance of . It carries Bunya Mountains traffic from Dalby and other points on the Warrego Highway to either Kaimkillenbun or Maclagan, where roads to the Bunya Mountains originate.
Kingaroy–Cooyar Road
Kingaroy–Cooyar Road is a state-controlled district road (number 419) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from the D'Aguilar Highway in Kingaroy to the New England Highway in Cooyar, a distance of by a circuitous route, passing through the localities of , and . It carries Bunya Mountains traffic primarily from the New England Highway to the Maidenwell–Bunya Mountains Road in Maidenwell.
Maidenwell–Bunya Mountains Road
Maidenwell–Bunya Mountains Road is a state-controlled district road (number 4196) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). It runs from Kingaroy–Cooyar Road in Maidenwell to Bunya Mountains Road in Bunya Mountains, a distance of , passing through . There is an unsealed section of about on this road. The climb/descent is steep and narrow, but wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Vigilantes%3A%20Deprogrammers%2C%20Anti-Cultists%2C%20and%20the%20New%20Religions | The New Vigilantes: Deprogrammers, Anti-Cultists, and the New Religions is a 1980 nonfiction book on anti-cultism, deprogramming, and new religious movements (cults) by sociologists of religion Anson D. Shupe and David G. Bromley. A foreword was written by Joseph R. Gusfield. It was published by SAGE Publications in its Library of Social Research series as volume 113. Some have described the volume as a companion to their previous work, "Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade (1979). Shupe and Bromley approach the anti-cult movement in the United States through a resource-mobilization lens.
Reception
Some scholars believe that The New Vigilantes has great scholarly value. Roland Robertson for Contemporary Sociology wrote that "the book is, for all of its theoretical disorganization, a helpful contribution to our understanding of modern American society". Thomas Robbins for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion noted that the authors "exhibit a kind of detached evenhandedness" which "places the views of the concerned parents, clergy, deprogrammers, ex-devotees and clinicians… on the same ontological level as the notion of cultist zealots". Stuart A. Wright for Review of Religious Research argues that combined with "Moonies" in America the two works "provide a valuable and scholarly contribution to the dynamics between a social movement (Unification Church) and countermovement (anti-cult movement)". He adds that the book "also provides a provocative and critical analysis of 'psychological brainwashing' claims". Meredith B. McGuire for Sociological Analysis called the book a "straight-forward descriptive account of the recent anti-cult movement", and adds that the book is "readable, though somewhat repetitive and short on theoretical interpretation". Joe E. Barnhart for the Journal of Church and State calls the work a "major contribution to the study of a slice of American religious and organizational life in the 1970s".
Other scholars found Shupe and Bromley's conclusions daunting and flawed. Arthur A. Dole for Journal of Religion & Health – who noted their paternal relationship with a former Unification Church member – believed that the movement is "too complicated and the facts too sparse to justify any comprehensive universal theory about cult and anti-cult". Dole also criticizes Shupe and Bromley's apparent disregard for important elements of anti-cult behavior, like the parental instinct to protect a child, and apparent bias against the anti-cult movement; he also criticizes the lack of important works of scholarship available on the Unification Church like Irving L. Horowitz's Science, Sin, and Scholarship (1978). William Sims Bainbridge for Social Forces notes how Shupe and Bromley seemingly miss entire portions of the anti-cult movement, like the United States federal government "war with Scientology", because they are too focused on the anti-cult attack on the Unification Church. He also notes some severe methodologic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Version%20Control%20%28software%29 | DVC is a free and open-source, platform-agnostic version system for data, machine learning models, and experiments. It is designed to make ML models shareable, experiments reproducible, and to track versions of models, data, and pipelines. DVC works on top of Git repositories and cloud storage.
The first (beta) version of DVC 0.6 was launched in May 2017. In May 2020, DVC 1.0 was publicly released by Iterative.ai.
Overview
DVC is designed to incorporate the best practices of software development into Machine Learning workflows. It does this by extending the traditional software tool Git by cloud storages for datasets and Machine Learning models.
Specifically, DVC makes Machine Learning operations:
Codified: it codifies datasets and models by storing pointers to the data files in cloud storages.
Reproducible: it allows users to reproduce experiments, and rebuild datasets from raw data. These features also allow to automate the construction of datasets, the training, evaluation, and deployment of ML models.
DVC and Git
DVC stores large files and datasets in separate storage, outside of Git. This storage can be on the user’s computer or hosted on any major cloud storage provider, such as AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. DVC users may also set up a remote repository on any server and connect to it remotely.
When a user stores their data and models in the remote repository, text file is created in their Git repository which points to the actual data in remote storage.
Features
DVC's features can be divided into three categories: data management, pipelines, and experiment tracking.
Data management
Data and model versioning is the base layer of DVC for large files, datasets, and machine learning models. It allows the use of a standard Git workflow, but without the need to store those files in the repository. Large files, directories and ML models are replaced with small metafiles, which in turn point to the original data. Data is stored separately, allowing data scientists to transfer large datasets or share a model with others.
DVC enables data versioning through codification. When a user creates metafiles, describing what datasets, ML artifacts and other features to track, DVC makes it possible to capture versions of data and models, create and restore from snapshots, record evolving metrics, switch between versions, etc.
Unique versions of data files and directories are cached in a systematic way (also preventing file duplication). The working datastore is separated from the user’s workspace to keep the project light, but stays connected via file links handled automatically by DVC.
Pipelines
DVC provides a mechanism to define and execute pipelines. Pipelines represent the process of building ML datasets and models, from how data is preprocessed to how models are trained and evaluated. Pipelines can also be used to deploy models into production environments.
DVC pipeline is focused on the experiment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Tatonetti | Nicholas Tatonetti is an American bioscientist who is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief Officer of Cancer Data Science at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University. His lab develops data mining approaches to understand clinical and molecular data.
Early life and education
Tatonetti was an undergraduate at Arizona State University. He majored in computational mathematics and biotechnology. In 2008, he completed a bachelor's degree, and moved to Stanford University as a graduate researcher, where he worked with Russ Altman in biomedical informatics. During his PhD, he developed novel statistical methods for observational data mining.
Research and career
In 2012, Tatonetti started his career as the Herbert Irving Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He was made Director of the Clinical Informatics Division in 2013, and Chief Officer for Cancer Data Science in 2022.
Tatonetti uses data science to inform drug design and to evaluate the effectiveness of potential pharmaceutical candidates for specific people. He combines electronic health records and genomics databases with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Personal life
Tatonetti has described himself as pansexual and gender non-conforming.
Selected publications
References
Living people
Arizona State University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Columbia University faculty
American scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Iceberg | Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge analytic tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive, Impala, StarRocks, Doris, and Pig to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. Iceberg is released under the Apache License. Iceberg addresses the performance and usability challenges of using Apache Hive tables in large and demanding data lake environments. Vendors currently supporting Apache Iceberg tables in their products include CelerData, Cloudera, Dremio, IOMETE, Snowflake, Starburst, Tabular, and AWS.
History
Iceberg started at Netflix by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks. Hive was used by many different services and engines in the Netflix infrastructure. Hive was never able to guarantee correctness and did not provide stable atomic transactions. Many at Netflix avoided using these services and making changes to the data to avert unintended consequences from the Hive format. Ryan Blue set out to address three issues that faced the Hive table by creating Iceberg:
Ensure correctness of the data and support ACID transactions.
Improve performance by enabling finer-grained operations to be done at the file granularity for optimal writes.
Simplify and obfuscate general operation and maintenance of tables.
Iceberg development started in 2017. The project was open-sourced and donated to the Apache Software Foundation in November 2018. In May 2020, the Iceberg project graduated to become a top level Apache project.
Iceberg is used by multiple companies including Airbnb, Apple, Expedia, LinkedIn, Adobe, Lyft, and many more.
See also
List of Apache Software Foundation projects
References
SQL
Free system software
Hadoop
Cloud platforms
Java platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis%20Carlos%20D%C3%ADaz | Luis Carlos Díaz Vázquez (born 15 February 1985) is a Venezuelan journalist and cyberactivist. He has worked at the Instituto Radiofónico Fe y Alegría, the Centro Gumilla and newspapers such as El Nacional and Tal Cual, as well as a radio host at Circuito Unión Radio, and served as a member of the editorial board of SIC magazine. Luis Carlos was arbitrarily detained in 2019 by agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) during the nationwide blackouts of that year, being declared by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. He was released the following day with precautionary measures and his case was archived in 2021, suspending such measures.
Biography
He grew up in the city of Charallave, in the Valles del Tuy, and started using the Internet in 1994. With the popularization of the Internet in the 2000s, he came into contact with the world of blogs where he created his blog Periodismo de paz, began studying for a degree in social communication at the Central University of Venezuela and began his career as a journalist. Aligned with the activity of the jesuits and critical of chavismo, he worked, among other media, in the magazine Comunicación and the newspaper El Nacional, as co-producer and announcer of the Instituto Radiofónico Fe y Alegría, as columnist on the political use of information and communication technologies in the newspaper Tal Cual, as coordinator of communication and networks of the Fundación Centro Gumilla and as a member of the editorial board of the magazine SIC. He also participated in the drafting of Versión beta: tendencias de la prensa y el periodismo del siglo XXI en Venezuela, published in 2008, where he talks about the future of the Internet. Since 2010 he was coordinator and presenter of the International Meeting of Peace Builders, held annually. In 2015 he began working at Circuito Unión Radio. with the Circuito Éxitos program, which was cancelled at the beginning of 2019, while Díaz was traveling in Mexico.
Detention
Between the night of March 11 and the early morning of March 12, 2019 agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN), at the service of the government of Nicolás Maduro, detained him, raided and looted his home in Caracas and transferred him to El Helicoide. His wife, Naky Soto, the National Union of Press Workers of Venezuela (SNTP) and the NGO PROVEA denounced the events. Luis Carlos was accused of promoting Venezuela's power blackout that began on 7 March 7 and was ongoing. The agents also threatened Naky with arrest if she made "too much noise" about what had happened. Amnesty International later declared Luis Carlos a prisoner of conscience. Naky would also later denounce that the first SEBIN commission that interviewed him beat him with the helmet of his bicycle, stole all the cash and jewelry they had, told him that they had arrested her at the Military Hospital and that they would take a corpse to his house to accuse them of murder, threatening him several times wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%20Baeten | Josephus C.M. Baeten (born 15 June 1954) is a Dutch computer scientist and mathematician, who has published on process calculus, concurrency theory, formal methods, model-based software engineering, model-based systems engineering and theory of computation.
Early life and education
Jos Baeten was born in Tilburg. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985, advised by Wayne Richter.
Career
He was a researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the University of Amsterdam until 1991, when he was appointed as a full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. There, he was professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1991 until 2015 (in two periods, he was dean of the department), and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2010 until 2012. In 2011, he returned to CWI as its director, and in 2015, he returned to the University of Amsterdam as professor of theory of computing at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation. He retired from both positions in 2020, and at that time became a CWI Fellow.
Baeten chaired the steering committee of the CONCUR conferences 1991-2018 and was president of ERCIM 2018-2019. Since 2010, he is a member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen.
During the 75th anniversary of CWI, he received a royal decoration of Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
References
Dutch computer scientists
Dutch mathematicians
University of Minnesota alumni
People from Tilburg
1954 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Members of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Popescu%20%28scientist%29 | Gabriel Popescu (October 24, 1971 — June 16, 2022) was an American optical engineer, who was the William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was best known for his work on biomedical optics and quantitative phase-contrast microscopy.
Biography
Popescu was born on October 24, 1971, in Romania. He obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from the University of Bucharest in 1995 and 1996, respectively. He further obtained obtained a master's degree and a PhD in optics, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, from School of Optics at University of Central Florida. In 2002, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Michael Stephen Feld.
In 2007, Popescu joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor and established the Quantitative Light Imaging (QLI) Laboratory. At this institution, he was affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering departments, as well as with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In 2009, he obtained American citizenship.
Popescu was an associate editor for Optics Express and Biomedical Optics Express and served as an editorial board member for Journal of Biomedical Optics and Scientific Reports. He was a Fellow of Optica, SPIE and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is the author of the textbook Quantitative Phase Imaging of Cells and Tissues and editor of Nanobiophotonics, which were released respectively in 2010 and 2011. He is also the founder of the startup company Phi Optics, which focuses on the commercialization of quantitative phase-contrast microscopy.
On June 16, 2022, Popescu died in his native village of Prundu, after suffering a fatal motorcycle accident. He was survived by his wife Catherine Best-Popescu, a research assistant professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and two children.
Research
Popescu's research has focused on biomedical optics, optical microscopy and spectroscopy. He has been regarded as a pioneering figure in quantitative phase-contrast microscopy, which facilitates non-destructive and label-free imaging of biological samples. Respectively in 2006, 2010 and 2017, he introduced different extensions of this method: diffraction phase microscopy, spatial light interference microscopy and gradient light interference microscopy.
Selected publications
Books
Journal articles
References
External links
1971 births
2022 deaths
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Naturalized citizens of the United States
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Bucharest alumni
University of Central Florida alumni
Optical engineers
American biomedical engineers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Romanian non-fiction writers
21st-century Romanian writers
Motorcycle road incident deaths
Road incident deaths in Romania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Love%20Boat%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Real Love Boat is an Australian reality television series, which premiered on Network 10 on 5 October 2022, and is based on the original television series The Love Boat (later revived as Love Boat: The Next Wave when it moved to UPN in 1998) that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986. The series takes place on Princess Cruises luxury passenger cruise ship Regal Princess in the Mediterranean. Darren McMullen serves as the host and performs the vocals for the song featured in the series' opening credits.
Crew
Darren McMullen as Your Host
Paolo Arrigo as Your Captain
Hannah Ferrier as Your Cruise Director
Daniel Doody as Your Head of Entertainment
Cast
Cast progress
Episodes
References
External links
Production website
Network 10 original programming
2022 Australian television series debuts
2020s Australian reality television series
2022 Australian television seasons
Australian television series based on American television series
Television series by Eureka
Television series set on cruise ships
English-language television shows
Television shows filmed in France
Television shows filmed in Greece
Television shows filmed in Italy
Television shows filmed in Montenegro
Television shows filmed in Spain
Television shows filmed in Turkey
Television shows filmed in the United Kingdom
Princess Cruises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb%20Money | Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
After being filmed in New Jersey from October to November of 2022, Dumb Money premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023. It was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing in select theaters on September 15, 2023, and wide release on September 29, 2023. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Keith Gill is a lower middle class man working as a financial analyst out of Brockton, Massachusetts. During his off time, he regularly frequents the stock market subreddit r/WallStreetBets, posting his opinions on it via YouTube live streams under the name Roaring Kitty. He struggles to provide for his family, and his YouTube work is constantly mocked by his brother Kevin as nerdy garbage.
In June 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith notices that video game retailer GameStop's stock is falling and sinks his life savings into buying stock in it, regularly live streaming updates with his viewers. Despite Kevin and several peers claiming this is a waste of time, by January 2021, activity on r/WallStreetBets reveals that several hedge fund investment firms, including Melvin Capital Management and its founder Gabe Plotkin, have been short selling stock in the chain on the assumption it would close, causing a mass increase in GameStop's overall stock price when online stock buyers, including struggling nurse Jennifer, GameStop retail employee Marcos, and lesbian college couple Riri and Harmony, start aggressively buying stock, causing Plotkin and other investment CEO's to lose hundreds of millions within the same timeframe and Keith to be heralded as a financial guru.
Things take a turn when r/WallStreetBets is temporarily shut down for 'inflammatory and vulgar content', causing a mass surge of panic selling in Gamestop's stock in an attempt to beat a perceived price drop. When the commission-free stock trading website Robinhood is unable to adequately pay the money for the sales, co-chairman Vlad Tenev, at the behest of Citadel LLC owner Ken Griffin, halts all purchasing of GameStop's stock in an attempt to drive down the price. The play ultimately works, but the subsequent negative backlash results in an investigation by the United States House Committee on Financial Services, with Tenev, Griffin, Plotkin, and Keith all being subpoenaed, the former three for their roles in the fiasco and the latter on suspicion of using the situation to trick the public into making himself rich. As the investors struggle to defend their actions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Sergey | Ilya Sergey (born 1986) is a Russian computer scientist and an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Verified Systems Engineering lab. Sergey does research in programming language design and implementation, software verification, distributed systems, program synthesis, and program repair. He is known for designing the Scilla programming language for smart contracts. He is the author of the free online book, Programs and Proofs: Mechanizing Mathematics with Dependent Types, Lecture notes with exercises, which provides an introduction to the basic concepts of mechanized reasoning and interactive theorem proving using Coq.
Sergey holds a joint appointment at Yale-NUS College and is a lead language designer at Zilliqa. He received his MSc in 2008 at Saint Petersburg State University and his PhD in 2012 at KU Leuven. Before joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Software Institute and on the faculty of University College London. Prior to starting an academic career, he worked as a software developer at JetBrains.
Awards and honors
2019 Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
OOPSLA 2019 Distinguished Artifact Award for the artifact Scilla discussed in article
POPL 2019 Distinguished Paper Award for the paper Structuring the synthesis of heap-manipulating programs
PLDI 2021 Distinguished Paper Award for the paper Cyclic Program Synthesis
Yale-NUS 2021 Distinguished Researcher award
References
External links
Personal website
1986 births
Living people
Russian computer scientists
Engineers from Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
KU Leuven alumni
Academic staff of Yale-NUS College
Academics of University College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casal%20Catal%C3%A0%20de%20Brussel%C2%B7les | Casal Català de Brussel·les (equivalent in English as "Catalan House in Brussels" or "Catalan Home of Brussels") is a nonprofit social organization of Belgium. It belongs to the worldwide network of Catalan Casals and seeks to build cohesion of Catalan citizens and Catalan speakers that live in this European state, as well as to promote the social and cultural reality of Catalonia. It was founded in 1930 and given its location in Brussels, the European capital of politics, it also aims to defend Catalan identity and to project Catalan culture internationally.
History and activities
The Casal Català de Brussel·les was founded in Brussels on 6 December 1930 by a group of Catalan exiled politicians. They were headed by what would later become the President of the Government of Catalonia, Francesc Macià i Llussà, and the writer and politician Bonaventura Gassol i Rovira, after the plot of Prats de Molló in 1926 that aimed to declare Catalonia's independence. From Brussels, Macià i Llussà continued his political task of opposing the Spanish dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, until, in February 1931, the government authorized his return to Catalonia.
The Casal's magazine along the 1930s was one of the first Catalan-language publications in Belgium and in its beginnings it conducted folkloric outreach activities such as sardanes and cobla performances. In the following years, the Casal acted as a driving force to unite several Catalan politicians, artists and civilians who had to fled from Catalonia due to the repression of the Francoist Spanish dictatorship. Later on, some of them arrived to Belgium in the search for employment opportunities following Spain's entrance to the European Economic Community. Regarding language revitalization, at the beginning of the 1987–1988 academic course it began to offer teaching courses in Catalan to primary and secondary school children.
Since the 21st century, it has also become the historical organization responsible for dressing the Manneken Pis as a Catalan shepherd and wearing a traditional barretina on the occasion of the National Day of Catalonia. At the end of the 2010s, the activity of the entity was distributed in about fifteen annual activities and hosted a supporting group of FC Barcelona (Penya Blaugrana), a kindergarten, informal afterwork drinking sessions, a choir and Catalan and Aranese learning courses.
References
Bibliography
Organisations based in Brussels
Catalan culture
Organizations established in 1930 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20W.%20Conway | Richard Walter Conway (born December 12, 1931) is an American industrial engineer and computer scientist who is the Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Conway has spent his entire academic career, both as a student and a professor, at Cornell and has held faculty positions at Cornell in several different areas: industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, and management science. He is especially known for his work and publications in foundational questions about computer simulation methodology; in writing about production scheduling theory; in developing computer languages and language compilers, including the widely used PL/C dialect of IBM's PL/I language; in authoring or co-authoring textbooks about computer programming; and in developing simulation software for manufacturing. He was also the first director of the Office of Computing Services at Cornell.
Early life and education
Conway was born on December 12, 1931, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in that state and attended Whitefish Bay High School in the Milwaukee County village of that name. He was awarded a John McMullen Regional Scholarship for the study of engineering.
He arrived at Cornell University as a freshman in 1949. Within the Sibley School of Mechanical Engineering, he embarked upon a five-year program of study. While an undergraduate he was an officer of the university's chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He participated in the Cornell University Orchestra and Concert Band. In athletics, Conway did 150 pound crew, rowing stroke in the junior varsity boat during Spring 1952, then rowing a middle position in the varsity boat during Spring 1953. He was elected to the Sphinx Head senior society. He had a very early exposure to computing via attending a noncredit seminar on the IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator that was given by Robert J. Walker and J. Barkley Rosser of the Cornell mathematics department. He graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in 1954.
He married Edythe Davies on 29 August 1953, herself a Cornell graduate and later faculty member in the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University. They had three children, as well as a shared love of sailing.
Conway then went into graduate study at Cornell, focusing on industrial engineering. He became interested in operations research and digital simulation, and was encouraged to continue in simulation by economist Harry Markowitz. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1958, under the supervision of Andrew Schultz Jr.; his thesis was entitled "An Experimental Investigation of Scheduling for Single-Stage Production". It was the first Ph.D. in industrial engineering at Cornell.
Operations research and simulation
By 1957, Conway had been part of the engineering faculty as an instructor. Then upon gaining his doctorate, he became an assi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datai%20Subdistrict | Datai Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of central Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It borders Yanchi and Wanping Towns in the north, Wanping and Yongding Towns in the east, Fozizhuang and Da'anshan Towns in the south, and Zhaitang Town in the west. In the year 2020, the population for this subdistrict was 3,728.
History
Administrative divisions
In the year 2021, Datai Subdistrict comprised nine communities:
See also
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
Mentougou District
Subdistricts of Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremen%20v.%20Cohen | Kremen v. Cohen, 337 F.3d 1024 (9th Cir., 2003), was a court ruling at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The ruling was an important early cyberlaw precedent, determining that an Internet domain name is an item of property that can be bought, sold, and stolen.
Facts
Internet entrepreneur Gary Kremen (who later founded Match.com and Clean Power Finance) registered the domain name sex.com with Network Solutions for a nominal fee in 1994. At the time he did not develop a website under that name, and instead decided to focus on building a business at Match.com.
Stephen M. Cohen, a convicted criminal who had recently completed a prison sentence after being convicted of fraud, envisioned that a website called "sex.com" could generate significant advertising revenues. When Cohen found that the domain name had already been registered by someone else, he embarked on an effort to acquire it fraudulently. In 1995, Cohen sent a letter to Network Solutions claiming to be a representative of Kremen's company and falsely stating that Kremen had been fired from the firm. Cohen in turn suggested that Network Solutions transfer ownership of the sex.com domain name to himself, because Kremen had apparently abandoned his ownership and Cohen now (supposedly) represented the owning firm.
Network Solutions took Cohen's fraudulent letter at face value, and did no due diligence to find errors in Cohen's reasoning or to contact Kremen to verify that he had abandoned the domain name. Network Solutions then transferred ownership to Cohen. When Kremen learned of the ruse and contacted Network Solutions, he was told that the transfer was complete and he was no longer the rightful owner of the domain name.
Cohen then developed a website called sex.com and quickly generated millions of dollars in revenues. In 1998 Kremen filed suit against both Cohen and Network Solutions for fraud.
District court proceedings
The case was first heard at the District Court for the Northern District of California. Kremen contended that Cohen and Network Solutions had violated several provisions of contract law, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent misrepresentation, and conspiracy to convert ownership of property. Network Solutions requested summary judgment, claiming that it had been deceived by Cohen and had no responsibility to Kremen.
The district court determined that Network Solutions had not committed fraud because as the provider of a basic service to register domain names upon request, there had been no actual contract when Kremen originally registered sex.com. This also absolved Network Solutions from fiduciary responsibility toward Kremen. On the matter of conspiracy to convert the ownership of property, the district court noted that, at the time, there was no settled law on whether a domain name was an item of intangible property that could be stolen. That question was rendered moot by this interpretation. Finally, as a party |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanchi%2C%20Beijing | Yanchi Town () is a town located at the northern part of Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It borders Liucun Town and Huailai County to its north, Miaofengshan and Wangping Towns to its east, Datai Subdistrict to its south, and Zhaitang Town to its west. It was home to 5,160 people in 2020.
The name Yanchi () originated in the Yuan dynasty, and was named after a local mountain which shaped like wild goose's wings.
History
Administrative Divisions
As of 2021, Yanchi Town consisted of 24 subdivisions, where 1 was a residential community and the rest were villages:
See also
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
Mentougou District
Towns in Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaitang | Zhaitang Town () is a town in the western side of Mentougou District, Beijing, China. It shares border with Guanting Town in the north, Datai Subdistrict and Yanchi Town in the east, Da'anshan and Shijiaying Townships in the south, and QIngshui Town in the west. As of 2020, It had a population of 7,486.
The name Zhaitang () came from Lingyue Temple within the town, which had been offering dinner to travelers and visitors during Tang dynasty.
History
Administrative Divisions
As of 2021, Zhaitang Town was composed of 30 subdivisions, of which 1 was a community and the other 29 were villages:
Climate
Zhaitang has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dwa). The average annual temperature in Zhaitang is . The average annual rainfall is with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around .
See also
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
Mentougou District
Towns in Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Vondr%C3%A1k | Jan Vondrák is a Czech applied mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University since 2015. He was a research staff member in the theory group at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 2009 to 2015.
Vondrák completed a bachelor's degree in physics (1995) and an M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2007) in computer science at Charles University under advisor Martin Loebl. He met mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani in 2004 in Boston. Vondrák completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2005 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under advisor Michel Goemans. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the theory group at Microsoft Research from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2009, Vondrák was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Princeton University. He married Mirzakhani in 2008 on a mountain in New Hampshire. They moved to California in 2009. Their daughter Anahita was born 2011. Mirzakhani died of breast cancer in 2017.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Czech mathematicians
Czech computer scientists
Applied mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Charles University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University faculty
Czech emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20The%20CW%20affiliates | The following are lists of affiliates of the CW television network:
List of The CW affiliates (by U.S. state)
List of The CW affiliates (table)
See also
Lists of ABC television affiliates
Lists of CBS television affiliates
Lists of Fox television affiliates
Lists of NBC television affiliates
Affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%2010%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. Seven Network announced that the show would be returning to their network in 2020 for its tenth season, however due to numerous COVID-19 restrictions, it had been pushed back until 2022. It had previously aired on Seven for six seasons from 2007 to 2012, and on the Nine Network for two seasons in 2013 and 2016, before returning to Seven in 2019. The judging panel consists of Shane Jacobson, Kate Ritchie, and Britain’s Got Talent judges David Walliams and Alesha Dixon. Ricki-Lee Coulter returned as host.
Production
Season 10 was originally scheduled to air in 2020, with filming set to commence in March 2020. The Seven Network announced a judging panel of Shane Jacobson, Manu Feildel and new judges Sonia Kruger and Olympia Valance with returning host Ricki-Lee Coulter. Production was however halted due to Covid-19 restrictions.
It was then confirmed that season 10 would air in 2021. In June 2021, Seven announced a new judging panel featuring Shane Jacobson with new judges Neil Patrick Harris, Alesha Dixon and Kate Ritchie. However, due to COVID-19 restrictions in Sydney the season was postponed once again. During Seven’s annual upfronts, it was confirmed the series will air in 2022.
Season 10 was confirmed to air in 2022. The judging panel consists of Jacobson, Kate Ritchie, and Britain’s Got Talent judges David Walliams and Alesha Dixon. Ricki-Lee Coulter returned as host.
The season was filmed during June and July 2022. Auditions took place at the Sydney Coliseum Theatre, while the finals were filmed at the Riverside Theatre.
Semi-finalists
Semi-final summary
Semi-final 1 (November 6)
Semi-final 2 (November 13)
Finals summary
Grand Finale (November 20)
Ratings
References
Australia's Got Talent
2022 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Rostovtsev | Andrey Afrikanovich Rostovtsev (; born 21 March 1960) is a Soviet and Russian physicist and political activist. One of the founders of the volunteer community network Dissernet.
Biography
In 1983 graduated from the MEFI. After graduation worked with ITEPh: until 2013 - as Head of the Laboratory of Physics of Elementary Particles.
The area of professional interests is Particle physics and Neutrino astronomy. Andrey Rostovtsev is the author of several hundred papers on particle physics, one of the most cited Russian authors of papers on experimental physics at particle accelerators. Member of the Corps of Physics Experts.
In 1997 he defended his doctoral thesis "Experimental study of hadron interactions of a photon using the H1 detector at the GERA accelerator".
In 2011, after ITEP was transferred under the control of the Kurchatov Institute, published a number of critical statements in defense of the institute, against the dominance of incompetent representatives of the new administration and the bureaucratization of science in general. Together with Vladimir Uralov, he founded the Internet project "Save ITEP". For criticism of the administration of the institute, he was fired from ITEP at the end of 2013.
After his dismissal from ITEP, he started working at the RAS Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Laboratory "Quantum physics and information".
Participation in international projects
ARGUS experiment at the DORIS electron-positron collider.
Fundamental Research in High Energy Physics H1.
ANTARES Neutrino observatory.
Dissernet
In February 2013, Rostovtsev, together with journalist Sergey Parkhomenko, biologist Mikhail Gelfand, and physicist Andrey Zayakin, founded the volunteer community network Dissernet, which exposes fake dissertations. Rostovtsev developed key software for dissertation and publication verification system.
In 2018 Andrey Rostovtsev entered the commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, known as the Commission for Counteracting the Falsification of Scientific Research. He was the initiator and leader of the work for discovering translation plagiarism in the papers of Russian authors in foreign predatory journals that formed the basis of the corresponding Report of the Commission in 2020.
External links (in Russian)
A. Rostovtsev on Dissernet
Publications in the newspaper for scientists
References
Russian activists
Russian anti-corruption activists
Russian physicists
Living people
1960 births
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Love%20in%2040%20Days%20episodes | Love in 40 Days is a Philippine fantasy romantic comedy television series broadcast by Kapamilya Channel. It aired on the network's Primetime Bida evening block, Jeepney TV, A2Z Primetime, TV5's Todo Max Primetime Singko and worldwide via The Filipino Channel from May 30, 2022, to October 28, 2022, replacing Meow, The Secret Boy and it was replaced by Ever Night: War of Brilliant Splendours on October 31, 2022.
Series overview
Episodes
Notes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Etzioni | Ruth D. Etzioni is a biostatistician who develops statistical computer models to research cancer progression. She is the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown endowed chair at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Life
Etzioni completed a B.S. in statistics at the University of Cape Town in 1985. She earned a M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 1991 to 1992.
Etzioni joined the faculty at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1992 as an associate in the biostatistics program. Her research interests include the development and implementation of statistical methods for prostate cancer studies. She held multiple positions before her promotion to full member of the public health sciences division in 2002. Etzioni was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in April 2016. As of 2016, her research focuses on the development of statistical computer models to learn about the latent process of cancer progression from observed data on disease incidence and mortality. Etzioni became the inaugural recipient of the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown endowed chair in 2020.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Cape Town alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Cancer researchers
American women statisticians
Biostatisticians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American women scientists
American medical researchers
Women medical researchers
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pann%C3%B3nia-Ring | The Pannónia-Ring is a motor and racing circuit in Ostffyasszonyfa, Hungary. It is located south of the town centre, accessible by road on the 8451.
Data about the track
Track length:
Number of right turns: 11
Number of left turns: 7
Track width:
Length of start-finish straight:
Max speed Pro-Superbike: approx.
Official record/lap: 1:53.667 (2011: Andreas Meklau)
High-line tumbling zones (gravel)
One of the world's safest motorcycle and car speedway circuits. Dive zones up to , with even longer slip-outs due to the environmental conditions. The track also has a special feature: it is homologated in the opposite direction (left-hand side).
Homologation to international standards, state-of-the-art infrastructure: health station, electronic timing, petrol station, express service, tyre service, motorbike showroom, restaurant, 300 sqm main building, go-kart and supermoto track, helipad, motel, sanitary, restaurant. The pit lane has 20 boxes and the depot has 15 more.
External links
Official website of the circuit
Pannónia Ring: Esőmenők – Magyar Narancs, 19 September 1996
Pannonia Ring Gokart
Vas County
Buildings and structures in Hungary
Motorsport venues in Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Corona | Chaos Corona is a computer-generated imagery 3D rendering software developed by Chaos Czech, a subsidiary of Chaos. It was created by Ondrej Karlík as a student project in 2009 and was developed by a Prague-based company Render Legion under the name Corona Renderer. In 2017, Chaos Group acquired Render Legion, later rebranding the company to Chaos Czech. In 2022, Corona Renderer was rebranded to Chaos Corona.
It's commonly used for architectural visualization. Corona is provided as a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max and Maxon Cinema 4D, and a standalone GUI-less application. Chaos Corona is a CPU-based rendering engine that can perform both biased and unbiased rendering and is sometimes used as a benchmark tool to measure CPU performance in multi-threaded workloads.
History
Corona Renderer was created in 2009 by Ondřej Karlík. By that time, GPU renderers were on the rise, but he considered that CPU rendering has great potential. He started the development as a solo student project at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He was later joined by a former CGI artist Adam Hotový, and Jaroslav Křivánek, associate professor and researcher at the Charles University in Prague, and founded the company Render Legion. He planned to create Corona Renderer for Blender, but it was impossible to launch a commercial product due to the restrictive GNU GPL license, so the development focused on Autodesk 3ds Max. Corona was officially released in 2015 after 6 years of alpha development. In 2017, Render Legion was acquired by Chaos Group, and the 2022 version of Corona Renderer was rebranded to Chaos Corona. The Render Plugin Corna Renderer is also available for Cinema 4D.
Overview
Corona is a CPU-based rendering engine that provides both biased and unbiased rendering options: using the path tracing engine gives an unbiased result, while using precomputations with a secondary engine increases processing time while making outcomes slightly biased. Corona also allows using GPU-based AI denoising instead of CPU denoising. Corona has three rendering options: Progressive (which refines the whole frame to the desired quality), Bucket (which makes numerous passes, refining the buckets where it's needed, notably reducing rendering time in scenes with large uniform areas), and BiDir/VCM mode (for scenes that need clear caustics). Corona supports interactive rendering, which allows one to implement and see changes in real-time, and distributed rendering, which utilizes the computational power of several devices in the network.
Corona includes a number of components and instruments to streamline 3D designers' and artists' workflows. For instance, Chaos Corona 8 (2022) includes Cosmos (a library of curated render-ready models with comprehensive materials, such as furniture, trees, cars, and people, as well as HDR sky images); materials library and materials editor; conversion tools that simplify import of scenes, lights, objects, and materials from V-Ray, Mental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord%20Stream | Nord Stream (German–English mixed expression for "North Stream"; , Severny potok) is a network of offshore natural gas pipelines which run under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to provide Western Europe with natural gas. It comprises two separate projects, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. Both pipelines each comprise two pipes, NS1 A and B as well as NS2 A and B, for a total of 4 physical pipes. Both pipelines start in Russia and land in Lubmin, Germany. They are majority owned (51 per cent) by Russia, along with German, Dutch and French stakeholders. They were financed by a consortium of companies from Russia, Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands. It was the first pipeline that bypassed Ukraine and Poland to deliver Russian natural gas directly to West Europe.
The project Nord Stream 2 was opposed from the start by the United States, who later imposed sanctions on companies that were involved in the project. The U.S. sanctions were criticized heavily by German politicians as "a serious interference in the internal affairs of Germany and Europe and their sovereignty".
Nord Stream 1 (NS1) runs from Vyborg, in northwestern Russia near Finland, and entered service in 2011. It is operated by Nord Stream AG. From 31 August 2022, Gazprom halted delivery indefinitely, officially because of maintenance.
Nord Stream 2 (NS2) runs from Ust-Luga in northwestern Russia near Estonia. The pipeline was built to increase gas exports towards Europe, aiming to double annual capacity. The project was completed in 2021, but did not enter service, because Germany withheld opening permission on February 22, 2022 due to Russia recognizing the Ukrainian separatist regions of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent, in line with a previous joint warning made with US president Joe Biden on February 7, 2022 to end the project if Russia were to invade Ukraine.
2022 sabotage
On 26 September 2022, news broke of four explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines, rendering three of the four lines inoperable.
Although none of the four Nord Stream pipelines were in operation they still contained pressurized natural gas of which vast quantities were released into the Baltic Sea.
See also
Balticconnector
Nabucco pipeline
South Stream
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake%20%28software%29 | Snowflake is a software package for assisting others in circumventing internet censorship by relaying data requests. Snowflake relay nodes are meant to be created by people in countries where Tor and Snowflake are not blocked. People under censorship then use a Snowflake client, packaged with the Tor Browser or Onion Browser, to access the Tor network, using Snowflake relays as proxy servers. Access to the Tor network can in turn give access to other blocked services (like blocked websites). A Snowflake node can be created by either installing a browser extension, installing a stand-alone program, or browsing a webpage with an embedded Snowflake relay. The node runs whenever the browser or program is connected to the internet.
Tor relays content requests through a chain of Tor nodes, including Snowflake nodes (onion routing). Each node in the chain only knows the addresses of the two adjacent links and cannot decrypt any of the other data it is relaying, which makes tracking or blocking the traffic much more difficult. A common countermeasure is blocking Tor nodes; the number and shifting nature of the Snowflake nodes make identifying and blocking connections to these nodes more difficult.
Tor is itself illegal in some countries. Like the internet, it can relay any sort of content, and some types of content are illegal in some countries.
History
Snowflake was originated by Serene, a hacker and former Google engineer and concert pianist. The name "Snowflake" was coined as her metaphor for a large number of ephemeral proxies in relation to "ICE Negotiation". Three programmers published the first version in January 2016. In 2019, it became available as a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome.It can also be run on derived browsers, such as Brave and Microsoft Edge. In February 2023 a thoroughly upgraded, stand-alone version dubbed Snowstorm was released; written in Rust and funded by the Open Tech Fund, beta testing is by invitation.
Function
Normal internet data packages come labelled with the original source and the final recipient of the data. For example, a package containing the encrypted text of this article would be labelled with the destination (the IP address of the reader's computer), and the source (the IP address of a Wikipedia server). This means that even if the actual content is encrypted, a censor can block all packages from certain sources (for instance, banning any package that comes from Wikipedia).
By contrast, Tor connections relay encrypted traffic though a chain of proxies. Each link only knows the addresses of the two adjacent links, which makes tracking the traffic much more difficult. The message in encrypted in layers, so it is called onion routing. A physical analogy would be sealing an envelope carrying the real message inside a nested set of envelopes, so that each envelope had a different address on it; each server opens the outermost envelope, addressed to it, and passes the remaining package on to the addres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith%20SupersPort | The SupersPort is a line of PC-compatible laptops manufactured by Zenith Data Systems and sold from 1988 to 1993. The first two main entries in the SupersPort line included either an Intel 80286 microprocessor clocked at 12 MHz or an 8088 processor clocked at 8 or 4.77 MHz, switchable. Later entries included the 386SX, 486SX and 486 processors. The SupersPort 286 in particular was one of the top-selling laptops of the late 1980s, although Zenith's position in this segment faltered by the early 1990s.
Development and release
Zenith Data Systems unveiled the SupersPort line alongside Zenith's TurbosPort 386 luggable computer on April 19, 1988. Both the SupersPort and TurbosPort were marketed under the company's new Road Warrior umbrella of battery-powered portable computers, a project helmed by Andy Czernek and John Frank, VP of marketing and president of Zenith respectively. Meanwhile, Howard Fullmer and Russ Niedzielski were responsible for the SupersPort's design. Both were initially assembled in the company's manufacturing plant in St. Joseph, Michigan, a union shop represented by United Steelworkers; according to Czernek, Zenith was the only union-manufactured personal computer in the world at the time. In keeping with the Road Warrior theme, the unveiling was held at an event center in Chicago, Illinois, with helmeted performers and motorcyclists showcasing the SupersPort and TurbosPort.
The lowest-cost initial entries in the SupersPort line, running an Intel 8088 microprocessor, are the successors to the company's Z-180 line of laptops. Both the 8088 SupersPort and the SupersPort 286 feature an improved design of the EL-backlit STN LCDs introduced with the Z-180 line, doubling the vertical resolution (for a total resolution of 640 by 400 pixels, CGA double-scan) and possessing a brighter backlight element. They both feature more power-efficient electronics and a smaller profile and weight. While the 8088 SupersPort was marketed toward university students, the SupersPort 286—featuring an Intel 80286 clocked at 12 MHz (with no wait states)—was aimed at business professionals. The SupersPort 286 was one of the first battery-powered 286 laptops; Zenith claimed it was the fastest 286 portable at the time of its release.
Both the 8088 SupersPort (actually featuring a 80C88 switchable between 8 and 4.77 MHz and simply called the SupersPort) and the SupersPort 286 came in two variants each. The SupersPort Model 2 was the lowest-cost affair and features dual 720 KB, 3.5-inch floppy disk drives; both are equipped with 640 KB of memory standard. The SupersPort Model 20 swaps one of the two floppy drives for a 20 MB hard drive. The SupersPort 286 Model 20 features a high-density 1.44 MB, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive and same 20 MB hard drive as the aforementioned model, while the SupersPort Model 40 features a 40 MB drive; both come with 1 MB RAM stock. The 80C88 SupersPort Model 20 weighs , while the SupersPort 286 Model 20 weighs a little over .
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal%20AI | Causal AI is an artificial intelligence system that can explain cause and effect. Causal AI technology is used by organisations to help explain decision making and the causes for a decision.
Systems based on causal AI, by identifying the underlying web of causality for a behaviour or event, provide insights that solely predictive AI models might fail to extract from historical data. An analysis of causality may be used to supplement human decisions in situations where understanding the causes behind an outcome is necessary, such as quantifying the impact of different interventions, policy decisions or performing scenario planning.
The concept of causal AI and the limits of machine learning were raised by Judea Pearl, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and philosopher, in The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Pearl asserted: “Machines' lack of understanding of causal relations is perhaps the biggest roadblock to giving them human-level intelligence.”
Columbia University has established a Causal AI Lab under Director Elias Bareinboim. Professor Bareinboim’s research focuses on causal and counterfactual inference and their applications to data-driven fields in the health and social sciences as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Technological research and consulting firm Gartner for the first time included causal AI in its 2022 Hype Cycle report, citing it as one of five critical technologies in accelerated AI automation.
References
Applications of artificial intelligence
Causal inference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSKM | OSKM may refer to:
OSKM (Russian: ), an early test colour broadcasting at the Soviet Central Television
OSKM factors, set of reprogramming factor proteins that are used to induce human fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReRites | ReRites (also known as RERITES, ReadingRites, Big Data Poetry) is a literary work of "Human + A.I. poetry" by David Jhave Johnston that used neural network models trained to generate poetry which the author then edited. ReRites won the Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature in 2022.
About the project
The ReRites project began as a daily rite of writing with a neural network, expanded into a series of performances from which video documentation has been published online, and concluded with a set of 12 books and an accompanying book of essays published by Anteism Books in 2019. In Electronic Literature, Scott Rettberg describes the early phases of the project in 2016, when it bore the preliminary name Big Data Poetry.
Jhave (the artist name that David Jhave Johnston goes by) describes the process of writing ReRites as a rite: "Every morning for 2 hours (normally 6:30–8:30am) I get up and edit the poetic output of a neural net. Deleting, weaving, conjugating, lineating, cohering. Re-writing. Re-wiring authorship: hybrid augmented enhanced evolutionary". There is video documentation of the writing process.
The human editing of the neural network's output is fundamental to this project, and Jhave gives examples of both unedited text extracts and his edited versions in publications about the project. Kyle Booten describes ReRites as "simultaneously dusty and outrageously verdant, monotonously sublime and speckled with beautiful and rare specimens".
Performances
ReRites was first shared with an audience through a series of performances where audience members and poets would participate in reading the automatically generated texts, which appeared on screen so fast that human readers could barely keep up. This has been described as allowing participants to "re-discover[..] the peculiar pleasures of being embodied", or, in Jhave's own words, as a space where human participants were "playing their wits and voices against an evocative infinite deep-learning muse".
The first performance was at Brown University's Interrupt Festival in 2019. It has been performed many times since, including at the Barbican Centre in London and Anteism Books.
Print Publications
For a single year Jhave published one book of poetry from the ReRites project each month. These twelve volumes are accompanied by a book of essays, all published by Anteism Books. The accompanying essays provide critical responses to the project from poets and scholars including Allison Parrish, Johanna Drucker, Kyle Booten, Stephanie Strickland, John Cayley, Lai-Tze Fan, Nick Montfort, Mairéad Byrne, and Chris Funkhouser. Allison Parrish notes elsewhere that these paratexts to ReRites serve a legitimising function for a genre of poetry that is not yet institutionally acknowledged.
Technical details
Starting in 2016 under the name Big Data Poetry, Jhave generated poems using, in his own words, "neural network code (..) adapted from three corporate github-hosted machine-learnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraStorm | TeraStorm is a 2022 Kenyan computer-animated science fiction film directed, written, and animated by Andrew Kaggia. The film was animated entirely using the Unreal Engine. It was selected as the Kenyan entry for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first African animated film to be selected to compete for this award. It is the first original African-scripted animated feature with African characters and context to be submitted for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature at the Oscars.
Synopsis
Set in a fictional Nairobi, a group of African superheroes join forces in an attempt to defeat an ancient wizard who threatens to destroy the earth with a powerful and mysterious artifact.
Cast
Ali Mwangola as Victor
Arabron Nyyneque as Eli-Ra
Melvin Alusa as Ammadu
Mungai Kiroga as Adrian
Sara Muhoho as Nuru
Peter Mudamba as General Maxwell
References
Kenyan animation
2022 films
2022 animated films
2022 action adventure films
2022 science fiction action films
2020s English-language films
2020s animated superhero films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fozizhuang%20Township | Fozizhuang Township () is a township situated in northern part of Fangshan District, Beijing, China. It shares border with Datai Subdistrict and Yongding Town in the north; Tanzhesi, Hebei Towns and Xiangyang Subdistrict in the east; Zhoukoudian Town, Nanjiao and Xiayunling Townships in the south; Shijiaying and Da'anshan Townships in the west. As of 2020, its census population was 6,183.
This area first became a village during the Yuan dynasty. The name Fozizhuang () was given for the buddha statue on village gate when it was founded.
History
Administrative Divisions
As of 2021, Fozizhuang Township consisted of 18 villages:
Gallery
See also
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
Fangshan District
Township-level divisions of Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%20Sports%2B | Win Sports+ is a Colombian pay television sports channel that was launched on 20 January 2020. The channel's programming consists of news reporting, live programs and broadcasts of the Colombian football Categoría Primera A, Categoría Primera B, and Copa Colombia.
References
External links
Official Website
RCN Televisión
Television networks in Colombia
Television stations in Colombia
Sports television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot%20Comstock | Margot Comstock (formerly Margot Comstock Tommervik, - ) was co-founder and editor of Softalk magazine, which was influential in the Apple II community, as part of a growing personal computing movement.
Career
Comstock worked as a freelance textbook editor, magazine article writer, and journalist. She also enjoyed playing games, and in 1979 she won more than $15,000 on the television game show Password. She and her husband Allan Tommervik purchased an Apple II+ with some of the money. She was enthusiastic about trying games and other software for the computer, along with its larger potential for helping people try new things. They decided to start a magazine for other Apple users, using the rest of the prize money and a second mortgage on their home.
Softalk
Comstock and Tommervik founded Softalk in 1980. They got in contact with a company called Softape that distributed Apple II software and had a newsletter, and they arranged to take over the newsletter and develop it into an Apple II enthusiast magazine. Comstock was 39 at the time. She set the vision for the magazine as taking a journalistic approach, instead of focusing on programming as other contemporary computer magazines did. This made the magazine accessible to Apple II users who weren't programmers. Comstock's work was part of a transition in personal computing around this time, from computers being hobbyist projects to computers getting used by people interested in games and practical applications.
Comstock and Tommervik published the last issue of Softalk in 1984, because fewer companies were paying for advertising, due to a larger shift in the industry, and they did not have money to print more issues.
After Softalk
In 1987, a Smithsonian video history project interviewed Comstock alongside people who had published popular software for the Apple II.
Comstock and Tommervik later published Softline, a game magazine with funding from Ken Williams. They also published several books, including a Mac book by Doug Clapp.
Comstock was an associate designer for Rama, an adventure game published in 1996.
Comstock gave a keynote presentation at KansasFest in 2014.
See also
Byte
References
Further reading
Doug Carlston, Software People: An Insider's Look at the Personal Computer Software Industry (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), 168–74
Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1994; New York: Penguin, 2001), 308–10, 388–89
"Smithsonian Video-history Program, Minicomputers and Microcomputers, Session One, the Brotherhood", by Jon B. Eklund, Smithsonian Institution Archives, July 31, 1987, Record Unit 9533
"Interview with Margot Comstock, Co-founder and Editor, Softalk Magazine", by Jason Scott, Internet Archive, June 20, 2015
American magazine editors
Apple II family
Women in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retouch4me | Retouch4me is a family of artificial intelligence-powered plug-ins for photography and video retouching, compatible with Adobe Photoshop; Adobe Lightroom, and Capture One (as external editors).
Development
Retouch4me plug-ins were developed by Oleg Sharonov, the author of 3D LUT Creator (a tool for professional color grading). The plug-ins resulted from eight years of photo retouching experience and two years of studying deep learning. The underlying neural networks were trained using professionally retouched photos, including the ones submitted by the community.
Plug-ins
Plug-ins address specific time-consuming common retouching tasks: healing skin blemishes, background cleanup, cleaning up wrinkles and tears in fabric, enhancing eyes, whitening teeth, smoothing out skin tone, adding depth and dimension to portraits, and general dodging and burning. The neural networks identify body and face, clothes and backgrounds, find issues, and correct them.
The software is available as a stand-alone app for Microsoft Windows and OS X, and can be launched through Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Capture One. A DaVinci Resolve Heal OFX video plug-in, announced in July 2022, applies healing in video. Plug-ins are sold separately with lifetime licenses.
Plug-ins are applied individually and can be automated with custom actions in Photoshop. The user can adjust the applied effect, specify the area it should be applied to, and preview the result. The calculations are performed on the workstation and don't require an active internet connection. The operations themselves take a few seconds.
Dodge&Burn uses dodging and burning techniques to smooth skin texture and fix trouble areas like nasolabial folds, periorbital dark circles, skin bumps, veins, unflattering shadows, and highlights, and such.
Portrait Volumes adds depth and dimension to portraits by dodging and burning certrain areas of the image to emphasize the eyes, nose, and lips and slightly adjusting contrast, exposure, and colors.
Eye Vessels (bundled with Eye Brilliance) removes unsightly blood vessels to make the eyes appear more white.
Eye Brilliance (bundled with Eye Vessels) automatically detects eyes and retouches them using the dodging and burning technique.
Heal fixes minor skin imperfections, such as acne and post-acne marks, pimples, enlarged pores, and so on. It doesn't rely on smoothing and therefore preserves skin texture.
Clean Backdrop detects and removes dirt, folds, holes, sensor dust, and other details from evenly-colored studio backgrounds.
Skin Tone evens out the general hue of the skin and removes redness.
White Teeth identifies teeth and adds a natural-looking whitening.
Fabric smoothes out creases and wrinkles on fabric and evens the color tones without removing unsightly folds or rolls of clothing.
Skin Mask enables one-click skin selection, which comes in handy for overall skin adjustments.
In July 2022, Retouch4me announced the He |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%27anshan%20Township | Da'anshan Township () is a township located inside of Fangshan District, Beijing, China. It borders Zhaitang Town and Datai Subdistrict to its north, Fozizhuang Township to its southeast, and Shijiaying Township to its southwest. Its total population was 2,871 in the 2020 census.
The name Da'anshan () originated in the late Tang dynasty, when warlord Liu Rengong constructed Da'an Emporium around this region.
History
Administrative divisions
In 2021, Da'anshan Township comprised one residential community and eight villages:
See also
List of township-level divisions of Beijing
References
Fangshan District
Township-level divisions of Beijing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah%20Ritchie | Hannah Ritchie (born 1993) is a Scottish data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Martin School and head of research at Our World in Data. Her research investigates the assessment of global food systems and visualising data from the COVID-19 pandemic. Her first book, The First Generation, is due to be published by Chatto & Windus.
Early life and education
Ritchie trained in environmental science at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her undergraduate degree in environmental geoscience and a master's degree in carbon management. She remained in Scotland for her PhD, where her research investigated malnutrition and global food systems. She created a scalable framework to understand food system pathways and identify losses, allocations and conversions. In particular, she looked to understand whether it was possible to feed a growing population without damaging the environment.
Research and career
Ritchie started her career as a lecturer in sustainability at the University of Edinburgh. She developed teaching programmes focussed on sustainability. She left Edinburgh to start a research position at the University of Oxford, where she developed data visualisations to communicate information.
Ritchie's early work considered food systems and how it was essential to adapt to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. For example, she has argued that for most foods, the carbon footprint is barely impacted by transport. In 2017, Ritchie joined Our World in Data as head of research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ritchie built the Our World in Data COVID-19 information dashboard.
In 2022, Chatto & Windus announced that they will publish Ritchie's first book, The First Generation. The book explores Ritchie's optimism for large-scale problem solving and ending climate change.
Selected publications
Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)
A global database of COVID-19 vaccination
CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
World Population Growth
References
1993 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Data scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%2010%29 | The tenth season of the Canadian reality television series Top Chef Canada and was first broadcast on Food Network. The new season was first announced by Food Network Canada on August 17, 2022.The season was filmed in Toronto, Ontario and also included an international travel destination for the first time in the competition's history, when they travelled to the Cayman Islands for the finale and penultimate episode.
The season features special challenges and score system in celebration of the show's tenth season. Many challenges were based on previously used "classic" Top Chef Canada events including the traditional "Restaurant Wars" competition, as well as familiar Quickfire Challenge components. A new addition to the tenth season included the "X" point system, which saw chefs who underperformed in challenges receiving Xs against their name, and would compete in sudden death challenges to stay alive in the competition should they receive three demerit Xs throughout the competition. Once a chef is eliminated from the sudden death challenge, the twist ended.
Season 10 featured Eden Grinshpan again as host, and kept all of its mainstay judges, including Head Judge Mark McEwan, along with resident judges Chris Nuttall-Smith, Mijune Pak and Janet Zuccarini, who rotated through judging elimination challenges, with at least one resident judge present per episode, but at times featured two or all resident judges on some given episodes. David Zilber, culinary and fermentation expert was a new addition to the cast as a resident judge, but only judged for the first three episodes of the competition, due to familial obligations.
Top Chef Canada: Season 10 premiered on September 26, 2022, and concluded on November 14, 2022. In the season finale, Tre Sanderson was declared the winner over runner-up Deseree Lo. For winning the competition, Sanderson was awarded the grand prize of $100,000 (CAD) as well as other cash and tangible prizes.
Contestants
Eleven chefs competed in season 10. Contestants are listed in the alphabetical order of their surnames.
Martine Bauer, 36, Toronto, Ontario
Tawnya Brant, 39, Ohsweken, Ontario
Kimberly "Kim" Conway, 29, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Joachim "Jo" Hayward, 32, Toronto, Ontario
Chris Irving, 40, Whitehorse, Yukon
Camilo Lapointe-Nascimento, 25, Montreal, Quebec
Deseree "Dez" Lo, 45, Vancouver, British Columbia
Vishnav "Vish" Mayekar, 30, Vancouver, British Columbia
Lindsay Porter, 36, Edmonton, Alberta
Trevane "Tre" Sanderson, 27, Toronto, Ontario
Monika Wahba, 32, Toronto, Ontario
Contestant progress
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Hastie | Helen Hastie is a professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. She specialises in Human-Robot Interaction and Multimodal interfaces. Hastie has undertaken projects such as AI personal assistants for remote robots, autonomous systems and spoken dialogue systems for sectors in defence and energy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Education
In 1995, Hastie graduated with a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Following this in 1996 she graduated with M.S. in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown University.
Additionally in 2000, Hastie graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Ph.D. in "Modelling Prosodic and Dialogue Information for Automatic Speech Recognition". Furthermore, in 2013 Hastie graduated with a PGCAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice) from Heriot-Watt University.
Career
In 1997, Hastie joined The University of Edinburgh as a research associate and tutor in which she taught modules such as Interaction Design, Web Design and Databases and Research Methods.
During 2001, Hastie joined AT&T Research Laboratories as a research associate before leaving in 2002 to become the lead engineering member for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology laboratories, where in 2005 she was promoted to senior member.
In January 2008, Hastie became a research fellow for the department of informatics for the University of Edinburgh.
During 2009, Hastie joined Heriot-Watt University as an associate professor in computer science, where she was promoted to lecturer in October 2013 and still an active lecturer.
In September 2022, serving as the academic lead, Hastie aided in opening the Heriot-Watt University's National Robotarium. Based in Edinburgh, the centre worth 22.4m GBP, was built for the focus of robotics and artificial intelligence research. The center is the largest applied research facility for robotics and AI systems in the UK.
Media representation
In July 2022, Hastie gave an interview to The Scotsman on the topic of human and robot relationships. Hastie discusses the challenges that comes with creating an emotionally intelligent machine that can build relationships and trust between the machine with there users. Hastie discusses the different scientific fields needed to build such relationships including, robotics, cognitive science, and psychology and how these fields are used to build a cognitive AI model.
During October 2022, Hastie was interviewed by the BBC on the topic of humanoid robots, specifically Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus. During the interview, Hastie noted that the work required for humanoid locomotion alone is difficult compared to wheels or quadruped locomotion. Additionally she stated that creating a humanoid robot can be detrimental and off putting to the users themselves. However, in response to the criticisms of the Optimus, she stated that the most important thing is that it is built fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Perekopsky | Ilya Evgenievich Perekopsky (; born 18 November 1983) is a Russian-born entrepreneur, manager, and investor. Vice President of the VKontakte network (2006-2014), Vice President of Telegram since 2018. Founder of Blackmoon Financial Group and the Blackmoon Crypto startup.
Early life and education
Ilya Perekopsky was born on November 18, 1983 in Cherepovets. He finished a local school #25. In 2001 Ilya moved to St. Petersburg. He graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 2006, where he majored in English language and translation at the Department of Philology. He was in the same year as Pavel Durov, together with whom he developed the first-ever in Russia social network VKontakte.
During their studies, Ilya and Pavel set up and launched an online university forum spbgu.ru. In 2006, Ilya was at the origins of the VKontakte (VK) social network, which grew to become the largest in Europe. Their investor was the father of Vyacheslav Mirilashvili.
Career
From October 2008 to January 2014, Perekopsky served as Deputy CEO of VKontakte, responsible for recruitment, key accounts, and commercial operations, including targeted advertising. He headed a social network and a recruitment platform for professionals called "Vshtate" (literally translated as In-house), a subsidiary of "VKontakte" (as of today, the company has suspended its operations).
In February 2014, he went on to become an advisor to the UCP Foundation. In the spring of 2014, UCP and Pavel Durov exchanged lawsuits.
In 2014, Ilya founded Blackmoon Financial Group, an aggregator for the non-bank lending market. By September 2017, Blackmoon Financial Group's turnover exceeded $140 million.
In 2014, he invested in a Cypriot company SMTDP Tech, which was developing anti-photoshop technology.
In 2017, he established Blackmoon Crypto, a blockchain-based, investment fund-building platform, which was able to raise $ 30 million during its ICO.
Telegram
After moving to Telegram, Ilya Perekopsky’s first big project was raising equity for Grams, a cryptocurrency of the new TON blockchain developed by Telegram. TON was the most sought-after crypto project in 2018-2019. The equity had to be acquired in two stages: pre-sales and stage A investments. Altogether, $1.7 billion was raised in two rounds. Among the investors were various well-known top-tier venture capitalists: Sequoia, Benchmark, Kleiner, Yuri Milner. But the project never took off, as the SEC sued Telegram. Ilya Perekopsky and Pavel Durov testified in an American court during the process. The court sided with the SEC, and TON was grounded.
According to the court award, 72% of the invested money had to be returned to the investors, but Telegram offered those who could wait a year a reimbursement of their investments at 100% value, plus 10% on top. This offer was not made only to US investors. Some of the investors were unhappy with the offer and sued Telegram. There has been a case, where the court sided with Telegram, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-to-video%20model | A text-to-video model is a machine learning model which takes as input a natural language description and produces a video matching that description.
Video prediction on making objects realistic in a stable background is performed by using recurrent neural network for a sequence to sequence model with a connector convolutional neural network encoding and decoding each frame pixel by pixel, creating video using deep learning.
Methodology
Data collection and data set preparation using clear video from kinetic human action video.
Training the convolutional neural network for making video.
Keywords extraction from text using natural-language programming .
Testing of Data set in conditional generative model for existing static and dynamic information from text by variational autoencoder and generative adversarial network.
Models
There are different models including open source models. CogVideo presented their code in GitHub. Meta Platforms uses text-to-video with makeavideo.studio.Google used Imagen Video for converting text-to-video.
Antonia Antonova presented another model.
In March 2023, a landmark research paper by Alibaba research was published, applying many of the principles found in latent image diffusion models to video generation. Services like Kaiber or Reemix have since adopted similar approaches to video generation in their respective products.
Matthias Niessner (TUM) and Lourdes Agapito (UCL) at AI company Synthesia work on developing 3D neural rendering techniques that synthesise realistic video. The goal is to improve existing text to video model by 2D and 3D neural representations of shape appearance and motion for controllable video synthesis of avatars that look and sound like real people.
Although alternative approaches exist, full latent diffusion models are currently regarded to be state of the art for video diffusion.
References
Artificial intelligence
Algorithms
Language
Computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quigg%20Lawrence | Raymond Quigg Lawrence Jr. (born July 10, 1959) is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. He was consecrated in 2013 as bishop suffragan in the Atlantic coast network of PEARUSA, which in 2016 became the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope. Since 1989, he has been rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Roanoke County, Virginia.
Early life and education
Lawrence was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the oldest of three children. His father, R. Quigg Lawrence Sr., was a Navy veteran and marketer who worked on the creative team that developed the Virginia Is for Lovers campaign. The elder Lawrence was also a recording studio executive who employed a young Bruce Springsteen, and music promoter, and his son worked as security for acts like David Bowie.
Lawrence attended Collegiate School in Richmond, graduating in 1977. He spent three years at the University of Virginia, where he said he majored in "fraternity mayhem." His ambitions to become a doctor frustrated by his partying and womanizing, he left UVA and spent part of 1979 and all of 1980 working as an EMT and paramedic in Richmond and at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He came to Christian faith after a fellow surfer gave him a copy of John Stott's Basic Christianity.
Lawrence has said that he received his call to ministry while working as a paramedic:
Lawrence finished his undergraduate degree in emergency medicine at Central Washington University, then enrolled in Virginia Theological Seminary, where he earned his M.Div. Lawrence also met Annette Fleet after completing seminary, and they married in 1986. They have three adult children and seven grandchildren. Lawrence later received a doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Ordained ministry
After graduation, Lawrence was appointed as an associate pastor in Kilmarnock, Virginia. He was released from the job in 1988. In January 1989, he was named the first rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS), a church plant that had grown out of the Cursillo movement and had just been elevated from mission to parish status in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. The theologically conservative Lawrence frequently fought with liberalizing elements in the Episcopal Church. “Almost everything was a hill I would die on," Lawrence has said. CHS grew from 42 members to more than 1,400 and spawned multiple church plants in the Roanoke area.
In 1995, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit called the Terumah Foundation raised funds to purchase land and construct a 27,000-square-foot facility on Merriman Road in southwest Roanoke County. While CHS used the property, Terumah remained the owner. In 2000, early in the process of the Anglican realignment, Bishop Neff Powell deposed Lawrence and ejected CHS from the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. The arrangement with Terumah allowed CHS to leave the Episcopal Church without forfeiting the property it used to the diocese. In January 2000, CHS became |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20coordination%20level | Global coordination level (GCL) is a computational method that evaluates the system-wide dependency in multivariate data, by calculating the distance correlation between random subsets of the variables. Originally applied to gene expression data, GCL assesses the level of coordination between genes, which are fundamentally linked in performing tasks and biological functions. Unlike traditional methods that require precise knowledge of pairwise interactions between genes, GCL can evaluate coordination without such information. The GCL value of zero signifies independent gene expression, while values above zero indicate gene-to-gene regulatory interactions. For instance, when GCL is applied to known genetic pathways in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database, it yields significantly positive values, while random subsets of genes or mock pathways with similar gene expression levels show very low GCL values. Additionally, GCL can be useful in analyzing high-dimensional ecological and biochemical dynamics.
Introduction
Genes interact with each other in a complex structure known as the gene regulatory network, which plays a crucial role in implementing various biological functions and performing different tasks within cells. However, inferring the precise pairwise interactions of the gene regulatory network remains challenging due to the large number of functional genes and the inherent stochasticity of these systems. Despite these challenges, certain features of the gene regulatory network can still be extracted without fully inferring all the interactions. For instance, the network connectivity, which refers to the density of actual gene-gene interactions compared to all possible interactions, may have important implications for general cellular processes.
Method description
The calculation of the Conditional Likelihood (CL) is based on multivariate dependencies among genes in a given cohort of cells. This involves a repeated procedure of randomly selecting subsets of genes and calculating the distance correlation between them, as described in the work. By averaging over many such gene subsets, a single numerical value, known as the Gene Connectivity Landscape (GCL), is obtained to assess the overall dependencies between the genes.
However, there are several important pre- and post-processing steps that need to be taken into account to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the GCL. Firstly, clustering methods should be applied to divide the analyzed cohort of cells into subsets, and the GCL should be calculated separately for each subset or the largest one to ensure homogeneity. Secondly, cells that deviate significantly from the rest of the cells (referred to as 'outliers') or cells that are too similar to each other (referred to as 'inliers') should be filtered out to avoid their undue influence on the GCL calculation.
Additionally, jackknife analysis, which involves systematically omitting subsets of cells from the analys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20S.%20Barnholtz-Sloan | Jill Suzanne Barnholtz-Sloan is an American biostatistician and data scientist specialized in cancer epidemiology and etiologic investigations of brain tumors. She is a senior investigator and associate director for informatics and data science at the National Cancer Institute.
Life
Barnholtz was born to Barbara Barnholtz, a Jewish Community Center assistant developmental director and Martin Barnholtz, a Creve Coeur city councilor. She completed a M.S. in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Barnholtz earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the UTHealth School of Public Health. Her 2000 dissertation was titled Traditional linkage analysis in admixed families. Ranajit Chakraborty was her doctoral advisor. Her academic advisor was Ralph Frankowski. In June 2000, she married physician-scientist and neurosurgeon Andrew E. Sloan at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
In 2002, Barnholtz-Sloan was an assistant professor at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. In 2007, she joined the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. She worked in multiple roles in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU) and the University Hospitals Health System (UHHS), which all focused on optimizing the use of data and analytics to advance health care. She has experience with multi-site, brain tumor, patient recruitment, and biological specimen collection, storage, and clinical annotation. She held the Sally S. Morley Designated Professorship/Chair at CWRU.
Barnholtz-Sloan joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2021, with a joint appointment as associate director for informatics and data science, in the center for biomedical informatics and information technology and senior investigator in the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG). Her research portfolio includes descriptive epidemiology studies and etiologic investigations of brain tumors.
See also
List of women in statistics
Women in computing
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Texas at Austin alumni
UTHealth School of Public Health alumni
Case Western Reserve University faculty
National Institutes of Health people
21st-century American women scientists
Cancer epidemiologists
Women data scientists
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